Partition or Volume - Create New

yurhi said:

thanks guys...

But the problem is that I just got last sunday the laptop, i havent done anything to it yet and it is a HP as you can see in the first picture. a windows explore screen shows that I have 3 primaries partitions:

1-local disk
2-recovery
3-hp-tools

and the second screen shows that I have 4 primaries partitions

1-local disk
2-hp-tools
3-recovery
4-SYSTEM

all those 4 partitions already came in the laptop, cause the windows 7 was already installed.

my questions are:

1- Can I just CUT what is inside of the Hp-tools partition and COPY to the Recovery partition and then use this partition for all my files and rename the partition later on ?

2- What the heck is the SYSTEM partition, can I just delete that ?

3-Please, can you give me step by step tutorial to help me be able to create more partitions ?

Thank you very much !

Yurhi,

You can create yourself a set of HP Windows 7 recovery disks to use to restore your computer back to a factory installation of Windows 7 instead of using the partitions. One disc will be a "Windows 7 Recovery Disc" and the other a "Applications and Drivers Disc". The link below from HP will show you how to using the HP Recovery Manager.

Using HP Backup and Recovery Manager in Vista - HP Customer Care (United States - English)

Afterwards you can delete the Recovery D: and HP_Tools E: partitions. Afterwards, you should be able to create a new partition with the unallocated space left.

   Warning

Be sure to create a set of Windows 7 Recovery discs before you delete these partitions. If you do not, you will have no way of reinstalling Windows 7 again.

Hello itsmesir, and welcome to Seven Forums.

Could you post a screenshot of your Disk Management showing your drive layout? This will help us determine what may be happening.

Itsmesir,

Since the C: drive will have allocated space for items like the page file, restore points, etc..., this will limit the amount of free space available on that partition.

Disk Management is limited to what it can do, so you might try the free Partition Wizard Home Edition to see if it may allow you to shrink the C: drive more for you.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

itsmesir said:

Hi,

Have attacehd the disk management screen shots. I am allowed to shrink only 203mb of the total.

This is a little unusual because it normally lets you shrink about half of the space (mainly because of the MFT sitting in the middle of the partition). But in your case, there may be a problem (as Brink says) with the shadowstorage (restore points). That cannot be seen from the Disk Management shots. I suggest you go into elevated Command Prompt and run the vssadmin list shadowstorage command. Look for the number associated with allocated - if that is excessive (e.g. more than 10 to 15% of the partition space), you may want to reduce the shadowstorage size. After reduction (which would delete all your current restore points), you can try your luck again with Disk Management.

System Protection - Change Disk Space Usage