Partitioning A HardDrive

[.Kencs]

I brought a new PC, which has 1TB hard-drive, but it is Partitioned into 2 drives, which is ideal.
I have a 500GB External Drive and a 160GB External Drive (160gb being done first to make sure it works)

I am using Vista and wanted to know, when you go into Disk Management and select 'Shrink Volume' How many time can you strink it?
I want my 160gb drive to be partitioned like this:

Movies - 40gb
Music - 40gb
Documents - 40gb
Misc - 40gb

Can this be done???

 

[Sunbed]

you can have 4 primary partitions and extended partitions to make more if you need them

 

[Ben643]

Not sure about your actual question, but if you can't get the Vista disk manager to do it how you want (I couldn't when I tried). Download the GParted boot cd. Really simple to use and has always done a fine job for me.

 

[.Kencs]

you can have 4 primary partitions and extended partitions to make more if you need them

I'm in Disk Management now and I have:

New Volume (K)
74.58 GB NTFS
Healthy (Active, Primary Partition)

and next to it, i've got:

74.47 GB
Formatting: (26%)

I asigned the new 74.47gb the letter L: so that should be fine, but when I right click on New Volume K: in Disk Management and click 'Shrink Volume' again, It says:

Total size before shrink in MB: 76368
Size of available shrink space in MB: 0
Enter the amount of space to shrink in MB: 0
Total size after shrink in MB: 0

Why is that?? It won't let me shrink it down again to a smaller size

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Also, If after I've partitioned...I can always put it back to it's original state can't I?

 

[rpstewart]

Why is that?? It won't let me shrink it down again to a smaller size

The shrink option will only shrink the partition if there is free space at the end. Given that Windows sprays data across the disk like a drunk with a machine gun it's quite usual to end up in this situation. Try using something like gparted which will reorganise the data as well.

Also, If after I've partitioned...I can always put it back to it's original state can't I?

Gparted and the like will let you merge partitions but it's not without risk. Sit down, think about what you need and get it right first time.