FrankMattes Posted October 31, 2009 Share Posted October 31, 2009 Dear all, just recently I bought a new Lenovo T500 and an unused P256. I installed Win 7, 64-bit version. After Win 7 setup was done I wanted to partition the P256 into a primary C drive (ca. 80 GB) for system files and a logical D drive (rest of P256) holding my data files. Unfortunately I could not find the relevant options for doing so in Win 7. I then used diskpart. In applying the shrink querymax command I got the response "Minimal volume size needs to be 130 GB". I then installed two 130 GB partitions and bought Paragon's Partition Manager who already supports the 64-bit Win 7 with the idea of changing the partition sizes. After restarting Win the SSD locked and did not change the partition sizes. With the help of the Win 7 DVD I could restart my system. Everything is working fine - except that I am still left with two identical partition sizes of 130 GB and that is not what I want. Does anyone have a tip on how to proceed in installing two partitions 80 GB / 176 GB (primary / logical) on a Win 7 64-bit? A step-by-step procedure would be ideal. Thanks in advance, Frank. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davyc Posted October 31, 2009 Share Posted October 31, 2009 Acronis Disk Director Suite should do the trick - I use it all the time for partioning, resizing and more - check it out HERE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrankMattes Posted October 31, 2009 Author Share Posted October 31, 2009 Acronis Disk Director Suite should do the trick - I use it all the time for partioning, resizing and more - check it out HERE Thanks for the information. According to the data sheet, ADDS does not support Win 7. Do you run it on Win 7 64 bit? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davyc Posted October 31, 2009 Share Posted October 31, 2009 Yes have been running it on Beta, RC1 and now on Retail 64bit without any problems ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
techspec6 Posted November 1, 2009 Share Posted November 1, 2009 You can install Windows 7 as normal and shrink the partition immediately after the install is complete. Go into Control Panel > Administrative tools > Computer management > Disk Management Right click the volume you want to split and select "Shrink". Type a value in Megabytes that you'd like the second partition to be. If you want the first partition to be a particular size, some math is involved. This has worked fine for me. Jason Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrankMattes Posted November 1, 2009 Author Share Posted November 1, 2009 You can install Windows 7 as normal and shrink the partition immediately after the install is complete. Go into Control Panel > Administrative tools > Computer management > Disk Management Right click the volume you want to split and select "Shrink". Type a value in Megabytes that you'd like the second partition to be. If you want the first partition to be a particular size, some math is involved. This has worked fine for me. Jason Jason, thank you for your support. Yes I am aware of the procedure you described. However this procedure does not address the problem. If you want to shrink the volume, Win shows you a "maximum shrinkage" to which you can shrink the volume to (i.e. it telly you what the minimum volume size could be). For some dubious reasons I can shrink the volume to half its size the maximum, i.e. I would be left with two partitions of equal size. For past systems I know that with 80GB for my system I would be fine whereas I would like to have as much space as possible for data files. So to pinpoint the problem: What exactly is preventing the volume to shrink to 1/3 of its current size? Best, Frank Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
techspec6 Posted November 1, 2009 Share Posted November 1, 2009 Hey Frank, I had this same problem once. I knew that the 1TB volume I wanted to shrink only had around 100GB of data on it, though it would only let me shrink the 1TB volume by 50GB. I wondered why this was for a bit before I assumed it was because of fragmentation. To check my theory, I cloned just the data, not the free space of the 1TB drive. I then deleted the partition and recreated it as the size that I wanted and reimaged the data back onto the newly created volume. Creating the second volume was no problem of course. My theory was never proven from this test but the end result was what I was looking for. I'm not sure if that information will help you but I hope that it does. Windows 7 creates a 100MB partition at the beginning of the drive with a default installation so there's no reason you shouldn't be able to create one that's 1/3rd the size of the drive. Good Luck, Jason Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrankMattes Posted November 1, 2009 Author Share Posted November 1, 2009 Dear forum, the issue is settled. I can positvely confirm that Davyc's approach works as well as techspec6's solution, Thank you all for your support. Best, Frank Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
techspec6 Posted November 2, 2009 Share Posted November 2, 2009 Glad to hear it worked out. Jason Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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