Creating a new Partition in Vista 64

gurusan · 6 Nov 2007 at 18:11

So I'm trying to make a new 20gb partition in vista...but it gives me the access denied message? I have UAC turned off btw.

I have also tried using Acronis Disk Director to do this but it just tells me to reboot the computer in order to carry out the action queue, and then it keeps rebooting during the windows load-up and I have to select "boot from last known good config" to get it to boot up.

jbloggs · 6 Nov 2007 at 18:24

You might want to have a look at This

gurusan · 6 Nov 2007 at 18:29

thanks but its doing the same thing. Tells me access is denied.

modo77 · 6 Nov 2007 at 18:35

You don't have any unallocated space on that disk, so you can't just create a new partition. Or are you trying to delete one of those partitions when you get that error?

gurusan · 6 Nov 2007 at 18:45

Sorry, I should have been more clear.

I was just trying to shrink the D: partition in order to create a 20gb unallocated space partition...then was going to create a new partition there.

...but I can't get through step 1.

modo77 · 6 Nov 2007 at 19:18

Ah right

Not sure why its not letting you resize it.
Maybe boot off LiveCD or something similar and try it in there.

gurusan · 6 Nov 2007 at 20:31

livecd?

how? I have a bootable 1gb USB stick btw.

**edit...oh i see okie

gurusan · 6 Nov 2007 at 21:54

well I downloaded ubuntu 7.10 and ran the livecd..then the partitioning tool and did it that way.

Thanks for the help

modo77 · 6 Nov 2007 at 23:40

Sorry was watching the footy and missed your reply. Glad you've sorted it