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Windows Vista Disk Management.
With Windows Vista, you can extend and shrink existing volumes (on the same disk)
easily and super quick just with a couple of mouse clicks. So if you are looking
to dual boot different versions of Windows or Windows Vista and Linux, Vista's disk
management helps you prepare your disk partitions for a quick and easy install.
 Note:
Extending and Shrinking Volumes can only be performed on partitions formatted with
NTFS or have no file system.
Extending Volumes.
Follow these quick and easy steps to extend an existing partition on your disk.
Start Windows Vista Disk Management.
Click Start, in the search box, type mmc and press enter.
You might be prompted for the Administrative Password.
With the mmc console open, click File, Add/Remove Snap-in...
With the add and Remove Snap-In dialog, click Computer Management and click Add.
On the following dialog box, ensure local computer is selected and click Finish.
Click Ok.
Expand Computer Management, expand Storage and click Disk Management.
Select the partition you want to extend. (Remember in order to extend a partition
you need additional free space on the same disk).
Right click the partition and click Extend Volume.
In my Example, I am gong to extend my "C-Drive" with the remaining 9.77 GB unallocated
space on my disk.
The Extend Volume Wizard dialog starts. click Next.
Select the disk you want to extend and select the amount of disk space you want
to extend by.
Click Next.
The Completing Extend Volume Wizard dialog is presented. Click Finish.
Your Disk is now extended.
Shrinking Volumes.
Shrinking Volumes is just as easy as Extending Volumes. Follow these quick and easy
steps to shrink a volume (or partition) on an existing disk.
Start Windows Vista Disk Management as seen in Extending Volumes. MMC
Right click the volume you want to shrink and click Shrink Volume.
Windows Vista Examines your Disks.
The Shrink dialog box is displayed. Enter the amount of disk space to shrink. In
my example, I am going to shrink my existing disk space on Drive-C by 10GB.(10000MB).
Click Shrink.
The Shrink process starts. This can take several minutes depending on disk size
and shrink size. In my example of 10GB on a 120GB disk, the process took less than
30 seconds.
Your disk has now shrunk by the amount chosen.
Converting your hard disk or partition to NTFS.
Follow these quick and easy steps to convert an existing partition or disk to NTFS
format. Note: This process cannot be un-done. You cannot convert NTFS back to FAT32.
In order to convert an existing NTFS partition to FAT32 filesystem, you will need
to reformat the partition(this will destroy all existing data on the partition).
Open the Command Prompt. Click Start, in the search box, type cmd and press enter.
In the command window type
convert drive-letter:/f:ntfs
Example
C:\>convert d:/fs:ntfs
press enter.
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