Solved Creating New Partition

[tjwa103]

I get an error message when trying to create a new partition on the hard drive using disk management. After creating an unallocated section I tried to create a New Simple Volume. After going through the paces it ends up saying that the basic disk will be converted to a dynamic disk and you wont be able to run os's or boot from the disk. Which is ok because I just want to store music pics, and some docs on it. I click yes , and then the error message reads. there is not enough space on the disk for this operation.

I would also like to know if I can change the allocated section to a smaller size.

Thanks for any help.

Can you purchase partition magic anymore?

 

[Maguscreed]

I suggest using a partition tool instead of windows disk management for this, especially if there is already data on the drive.

 

[Britton30]

You can use the free version of Partition Wizard to do this.
Best Free Partition Manager Freeware and free partition magic for Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Vista and Windows XP 32 bit & 64 bit. MiniTool Free Partition Manager Software Home Edition.

 

[tjwa103]

ty everyone for posting so quickly

 

[Britton30]

You're welcome. Did you get the new partition made then?

 

[tjwa103]

Yes and thanks to you I used the free shareware you recommended I actually bought the pro version because I had to merge two partitions together... Thanks again Britton.