Re: Partitioning a drive with Windows 7 already installed

[Mark Allums <mark@allums.com>]

On 10/13/2010 9:25 AM, Damon L. Chesser wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-10-13 at 00:24 +0200, Ogya Chief wrote:

> > I have Win 7 home premium. I will find out what tools for
> > partitioning/backup came with it and decide on my next course of
> > action.
>
> Windows comes with a resizer:  right click on "my computer">  manage
> > diskmanager.  The next step is fuzzy in my memory:  right click on the
> drive>  reszie?  Windows will now resize the partition, reboot and run
> chck disk if needed first, reboot, re-run chck disk.  This eliminates
> the need for manual intervention to ensure your NTFS is in a state that
> can safely shrink.  Windows will also not allow you to shrink the
> partition smaller then the data will fit on.


Windows is finicky about what you can do to the "system partition", 
however, this is worth trying, since, in principle, no utility would be 
more suitable than Windows' own.