d5100t: Splitting 600GB C: Drive Into Partitions

[sramesh101]

I received a shiny new d5100t desktop PC with Vista 64 bit Home Premium last week. Everything works fine and I'm very pleased overall.

The computer came with a 750GB SATA hard disk.The factory install split this into two partitions (C: 700 GB and D: 11GB)  [approximate figures]

I want to partition the 700 GB C: into 3 partitions like this - C: 300 GB, E: 200 GB, F: 200 GB

I used the logical disk manager that comes in Vista to shrink C:. It allowed me to shrink C: by 100 GB; this 100GB space I renamed as E:. So, now I have -

C: 600 GB, E: 100GB, D: 11 GB

Vista is not showing me an option to shrink C:further. Perhaps because the partition is being used as a page file. However, in task manager, the page file seems to be rather small (around 20 GB or so if I recall correctly; definitely not larger than 50 GB). So I don't know why I cannot partition the 600GB space.

Question

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Is it possible to partition C:? If so, how?

Thanks,

Ramesh

[sramesh101 · Accepted solution]

Found a How To for this issue.