How to expand your primary partition in Windows Vista
Hello. Yesterday, I have installed Windows Vista on my computer. Actually, I had already done that before, but due to the lack of memory of my laptop, I reverted back to Windows XP. After upgrading the memory to 1.5GB, I decided to give Vista one more trial.
The installation was successful as before. But this time, Windows Aero can be done. Last time, even Windows Sidebar did not load automatically after the installation. Maybe 512MB is not enough to run Windows Sidebar efficiently. And I started to love Windows Vista. Microsoft was right with the “Wow” of Vista.
Back to the main topic. After the installation, I realized that my primary partition was only 15GB, which is minimum requirement for Vista. The size of the partition was enough at the time I used XP, but now I need to expand the size.
Vista can do the partition resizing without third party software (link), but for the primary partition, you can only shrink the volume. Therefore, I visited Windows Marketplace to find compatible disk manager software for Vista. And they do have solution, which will cost you $50.00.
Acronis Disk Director Suite 10.0 is compatible with Vista and has resized my primary partition to the size I wanted. The only problem I had by this software was, I cannot open it and the error said that I don’t have enough privileges to run the program. This can be fixed by using “Run as Administrator” optio
And for those who hasn’t try Vista yet, do try it and feel the Wow!
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Cool,
very cool.
Greetings.
Markus from Germany
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