[startekee]

Is it possible to create a partition on a raid 0 drive without formatting.

 

[IEATFISH]

Can you go into the vista partitioner and just shrink the volume? If it lets you, then I would assume it is possible.

 

[j0z3]

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Originally Posted by IEATFISH Can you go into the vista partitioner and just shrink the volume? If it lets you, then I would assume it is possible.

Thats correct.

 

[startekee]

what does shrinking do?

 

[sailerboy]

I use gparted, because i dont trust windows.

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/

Its also the partitioner that comes with ubuntu, so if anyone has installed ubuntu, this is what they used. I dont know of anyone loosing data from installing ubuntu, so gparted should be fine.

 

[IEATFISH]

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Originally Posted by startekee what does shrinking do?

Shrinks one partition and creates unallocated space that you can partition to a new space. You just pick how much you want to shrink (i.e. free up for a new partition).

I personally like to let Vista resize itself instead of another program, then I will use either the Vista one or gparted to play with the free space. The Vista partitioner is pretty good.

 

[startekee]

I told it to shrink 7000mb but its taking an unbelievable long time

 

[IEATFISH]

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Originally Posted by startekee I told it to shrink 7000mb but its taking an unbelievable long time

Did you defrag first? It may just need to move stuff around, and I've never done it with a raid so it may be doing a lot of thinking. I'd say let it think.

 

[startekee]

ok then. i'll let it do its thing but it makes my computer unresponsive

 

[sktfreak]

Start>Right Click my comp>Manage>Disk Management> Select HDD>Right click HDD> Create Partion
Easy