Repartitioning drives under Vista ?

Jon_01

I've just got a new laptop (Dell Vostro 1510). Its got a 320 gig hd but as a C drive (278 gig) and D (restore 9 gig).

I'm trying to repartition C to give a data drive of a 100 gig and a storage drive of 50 gig but the software in Vista won't drop C below 50% of its current size.

Are there any problems using a dos prog (partition magic for example) to resize or will that create problems with the Vista install ???

Thanks

aliEnRIK

Im not sure why you would want to
Your saying you want the drive partitioned 3 ways? (C and D are already the same)
Just create a folder on C to use purely as storage

Jon_01

Its being used for video editing on the move. Its far easier to have separate physical drives for the source files. Also, as happens more often than it should, the system can fall over and you don't want to lose 50 to 70 gigs of raw clips when the drive crashes...
Video s/w is a bit flaky ...

aliEnRIK

But as ive just said ~ partitioning is STILL using the same 'C' drive anyways. Your best bet would be to get a hold of another ACTUAL drive.

aliEnRIK

If however you absolutely MUST partition the C drive further
Then this should do the job ~
http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/Hard-Disk-Utils/SwissKnife.shtml

Jon_01

aliEnRIK wrote: »

But as ive just said ~ partitioning is STILL using the same 'C' drive anyways. Your best bet would be to get a hold of another ACTUAL drive.

I agree. If we could fit a 17 inch model in the kit we would have two drives. But space is not our friend. We've done it this way for a while and having 3 partitions does help when the s/w falls over.
Thanks for the link, I'll give it a try.

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aliEnRIK wrote: »

But as ive just said ~ partitioning is STILL using the same 'C' drive anyways. Your best bet would be to get a hold of another ACTUAL drive.

Exactly. If the drive fails then the partitions are still affected.

Jon_01

anewhope wrote: »

Exactly. If the drive fails then the partitions are still affected.

Its not the drive failing that's the problem, its the s/w falling over and corruption the partition as it goes. . .

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Jon_01 wrote: »

Its not the drive failing that's the problem, its the s/w falling over and corruption the partition as it goes. . .

Isn't that an even more remote possibility than the drive itself failing?

Jon_01

You've, obviously, never used 'professional' video editing software.
It goes over on a daily basis and takes the op system out about once a month. We have to carry and image of a clean install with us to restore from.
The obvious comment here would be 'why do you use it ?'. Because its the industry standard and we have no choice...

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Jon_01 wrote: »

You've, obviously, never used 'professional' video editing software.
It goes over on a daily basis and takes the op system out about once a month. We have to carry and image of a clean install with us to restore from.
The obvious comment here would be 'why do you use it ?'. Because its the industry standard and we have no choice...

I can understand how I/O transfer on a constant stream can corrupt the file as it's being created but it's really bizarre how that would corrupt the entire volume.