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How to partition a hard drive that has a recovery partition
I have a HP Pavilion laptop with a 750 GB hard drive, running windows 7 Home Premium (64 Bit). The hard drive has a recovery partition. I want to create two new partitions without losing the two existing partitions. What tool would be the best to use for this. I understand you can shrink a partion with built-in utilities in Windows 7. Could I then create the new partitions using this method?
20th Aug
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Once you shrink your partition
and have the desired amount of unallocated or free area for your new partitions, follow the steps Microsoft suggests on the following page:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/gg309170.aspx
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/gg309170.aspx
20th Aug
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Could do that with Win7 or a third-party tool
The most popular app is Partition Magic and there are others like Easus Partition Master.
If you want to dual-boot, then a third-party app may be needed.
www DOT partition-tool DOT com/resource/windows-8-partition-manager/dual-boot-windows-7-and-windows-8.htm
(replace DOT with dot)
Acronis Disk Director is a very highly rated tool:
www DOT acronis DOT com/homecomputing/products/diskdirector/?gclid=CP7_8e7O9rECFQOd7Qod_RIAxw
If you want to dual-boot, then a third-party app may be needed.
www DOT partition-tool DOT com/resource/windows-8-partition-manager/dual-boot-windows-7-and-windows-8.htm
(replace DOT with dot)
Acronis Disk Director is a very highly rated tool:
www DOT acronis DOT com/homecomputing/products/diskdirector/?gclid=CP7_8e7O9rECFQOd7Qod_RIAxw
20th Aug
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recommend freeware
a software called AOMEI Partition Assistant home edition, This freeware is compatible with both 32 bit & 64 bit versions of Windows operating systems, including Windows 8, Windows 7 (SP1 supported), Vista, XP, and Windows 2000 Professional.You can learn more from this link: http://www.extend-partition.com/free-partition-manager.html
17th Oct
