Unable To Shrink; C-Drive Windows XP Home Eddition! Why? Page 2

Well here it is Thursday and I have not posted a thing on this blog. So guess that I had better get to work been spend the daylight hours at my Union Shipping hall looking for a ship (job).

Why I could not shrink the C-Drive on XP Home Edition. But was able to do so using the Disk Manager in Windows Vista.

One may ask how do you do this and where is the Disk manager so I will walk you through  the steps to do so in Vista. My Computer -right click- list opens-left click Manage- new window opens. Find Disk Manager- new window showing all partitions. in open area or white area of the C-Drive right click- under options click re size partition- shrink partition

At this point I want you to understand that you can only shrink or reduce the partition to the point that you reach one of the following: the page file; the temp file; and last the unmovable files. And you want to attempt to do so only after defraging the drive.

After you create your new partition or 2 you can then move the following files to the new partition drives. Temp, TMP, Page Files and in Internet Explorer Options, the temp folder under setting. after reading how to do so in Self Computer Repair, Unleashed. (Click on the picture of the book to get your own copy on the right side of this blog page.)

By now you are asking when is he going to get to the point where he tells me how to shrink that C-Drive to create these new partitions.

I have these ERD also know as bootable disks that are pre Operating System, that you can set  up your BIOS in the Boot Section to Boot the DVD/CD Rom before the Hard drive so that you can boot from the disk. This is a DOS system BUT all that is on the disk.

The one I used is "Powersuite Boot Care 2009 Edition". Was unable to shrink or resize the C-Drive using the installed Powersuite Wincare 2010 as it works from an active Operating System. Nor was I able to do so with my newly downloaded  copy of Acronis Disk Director or their True Image Program.

I had not created the bootable disk for Acronis at this time but have done so since writing my last post in fact that is why I have not made any post lately is because I have been trying to make a number of different bootable disks. As well as some Bootable Flash Drives. Plan on a Bootable USB Hard Drive soon also.

Link: spotmau.com; this will take you to the site. Now you can get the package for a lower price if you enter the same in a web browser. From past experience you ca n clean a little too much out of your Registry Files with this disk and the system will not boot if you do. It is a very powerful disk, makes you a dangerous person around a computer. Same thing when optimizing the Services do too much and something won't work.

Link: Acronis.com/True_Image 2011; this a very powerful disk that allows you to make clones of your operating system and if used in conjunction with their Disk Director 11 for 2011 you can have a very interesting package for maintaining your computer....

link:Acronis ​disk director 11 2011;

I have made a Bootable CD of the Linux boot program for this combining the True image and Disk Director and boot file on the disk and I choose to use the windows PE environment as apposed to the Linux due to familiarity.

Am now in the process of creating the Windows version of the same but it is a bit more complicated to do so
needs DVD's to create a boot disk. Dang it I forgot to buy the DVD's.

End of the post trust you as like myself have learned something new about your computer.