Wednesday, August 2, 2017

Shrinking a Partition in Windows Vista

Shrinking a Partition in Windows Vista


After Accepting the license and hit "Next"while installing Windows Vista choose a Custom installation.

On the screen where you�re asked where you want to install Windows, you should see a single large partition marked Primary

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Press SHIFT+F10. This is a Windows PE 2.0 shortcut to open up a command window.

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Type in DISKPART and press Enter. This opens the Microsoft DiskPart application. You need to select the active disk, so type in:`

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Now we need a list of volumes on this disk, so type in:

In this case Volume 0 is the one we want, so type "select volume 0"

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Now Type "shrink" as shown bellow

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DiskPart will go off and reclaim as much of the drive as it can � you should get at least 50% of the space back. Bow type "EXIT" and "EXIT" again.

to quit the command window and get back to the install screen. Click Refresh and the partition window will update � you should now see the original Primary partition plus a brand new partition as shown bellow.

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