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Creating a new partition on my new laptop
I've just purchased a new laptop, a HP-DV6. It has a 640 gb HDD, the C partition is 582 gb. I like to have my data on a separate partition to the OS and programs so that I can more easily image and restore the active partition and deal with my data backups independently from the C drive images.
I presume that means shrinking the C drive. Can anyone help me with the maths, and the steps toward a new partition?
In the shrink window it says:
Total size before shrink in mb: 595995
Size of available shrink space in mb: 290572
Enter the amount of space to shrink: 290572
Total size after shrink: 305423
Why am I limited to 290572? I was figuring on a C partition of about 120gb, giving me about 462 gb for data, which is the amount I want.
Is there another way to achieve what I want?
Thanks.