Creating new partitions Vista Addons and Applications Discuss Creating new partitions in the Windows Vista forums; My XP machine has 4 partitions. When I try to "Easy Transfer" to Vista there is a problem because there is only one partition, the C: drive. Vista ...

[njrunge]

My XP machine has 4 partitions. When I try to "Easy Transfer" to Vista there is a problem because there is only one partition, the C: drive. Vista can create new partitions, but they are all primary partitiions. There seems to be no way Vista can create an extended partition and then establish logical drives. How can I create more partitions without having to reinstall Vista? Do I have to use a third party application? Which one?

[felix8406]

You can create a new partition using the Disk Management from within Vista or, using Vista's DVD. If I'm not mistaken, Vista can create 3 Primary partitions on a drive. If you try to create a fourth partition, it will be created as a Logical or Extended partition.

Here are the steps to create a partition using the Vista DVD:

1) Boot to Vista's DVD
2) Press any key when the message "Press any key to boot from CD/DVD" appears
3) Select your language from the list and press Next
4) At the Installation screen press the Install Now button
5) Type your product key number and then press OK
6) Accept the End user License Agreement to continue
7) The next screen to appear asking if you "Where do you want to install Windows"
8) At the bottom of this window you will see an option marked Drive options (Advanced), click on this option
9) In this Window select "unallocated space" from the list of partitions and then click New
10) Type the size of the new partition into the size box or accept the default and click Apply

Good luck. Hope this help.

[njrunge]

A friend helped me answer this one. Vista can't do the job. I used a W2K machine, attached the slave drive (to be installed in the Vista machine), used fdisk.exe to partition the drive as an extended drive, then created three logical drives. Next, I installed it in the Vista machine. When I clicked on each logical drive Vista told me it wasn't formatted, did I want to format it? Yes, NTFS. After rebooting, and after Vista recognized the new drives and did its configuring, the drives were fully functional.