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Partitioning Hard Drive

  • 17-07-2010 9:26pm
    #1
    Boom_Boom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35 ✭


    Hi. So I'm trying to partition my 160 gb hard drive in my netbook. The thing is, as it's the only drive I have to shrink it. When I try to do that in computer management I keep getting errors saying 1.7gb is the max I can shrink it because I have 'unmovable files'. I only have about 20 or 30gb of music, movies and documents so what exactly are they? And how would I go about partitioning the drive? I'm looking to partition around 30gb for a dual boot. Thanks.


Comments

  • #2
    digme
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,584 ✭✭✭digme


    defrag it first


  • #3
    Boom_Boom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35 ✭Boom_Boom


    digme wrote: »
    defrag it first

    Right click hard drive > properties> tools> defrag?


  • #4
    ED E
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,169 ✭✭✭✭ED E


    Defragger wont touch large files IIRC. The ones listed as verbose. Not sure what the threshold is though.


  • #5
    softdancomputer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 197 ✭✭softdancomputer


    Use a third party tool as Paragon (you may find a free old one) or look for Gparted live CD (or here couple more...)


  • #6
    ricman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,559 ✭✭✭ricman


    See here http://www.partition-tool.com/
    partition in ntfs format, if its a windows os, i think you have to name the drive,otherwise its call swissknife partition.
    download cccleaner ,install,run it, you may have over 1gig of temporary files/duplicate old files on the hd.Do this be4 you partition.


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