Need Suggestions For Doing A Quick Partition?

I just got through servicing my cousin’s laptop an I wanted to perform a partition on her 225GB hard drive, but I have never partitioned a hard drive before?
I already did a fresh install of Windows 7 on her lap, so I just want to know, how do I do a quick partition, I just want to split the drive, 125GB for primary an a 100GB partition.
Personally I an not a fan of partitioning, I would rather but a separate secondary hard drive all together, but I am dong it for her.
Thanx in advance
Answer #1
I use Acronis Disc Director.
Answer #2
Just use the disc management tool in windows 7.
If you don’t have much data it will work fine.
Answer #3
I use Acronis Disc Director.
don’t think you can resize existing and create new partitions on the OS drive from inside windows
might be easier to start from scratch and delete the existing partition then create 2 new ones and reinstall windows
or you can resize the existing one and create a new one from the free space
for either method get Active Boot Disk, burn & boot from it
then use Active Partition Mgr to resize and/or create partitions
Hiren’s BootCD 10.0 has Acronis Disc Director on it and can be used as well
but Active Boot Disk boots to a win7 GUI and might be more comfortable to use for a partitioning virgin
Answer #4
edwoodweb replied: I use Acronis Disc Director.
don't think you can resize existing and create new partitions on the OS drive from inside windows
might be easier to start from scratch and delete the existing partition then create 2 new ones and reinstall windows
or you can resize the existing one and create a new one from the free space
for either method get Active Boot Disk, burn & boot from it
then use Active Partition Mgr to resize and/or create partitions
Hiren's BootCD 10.0 has Acronis Disc Director on it and can be used as well
but Active Boot Disk boots to a win7 GUI and might be more comfortable to use for a partitioning virgin
If the HD does not contain much data the chances are that resizing and partiotioning can be done using the windoes disc management tools.
If not use EASUS Partition manager.
Google it.
Answer #5
If the HD does not contain much data the chances are that resizing and partiotioning can be done using the windoes disc management tools.
not if it contains the OS, as the drive is locked, only way to work on the OS drive is from a bootable CD or flash drive
Answer #6
not if it contains the OS, as the drive is locked, only way to work on the OS drive is from a bootable CD or flash drive
Actually even if it contains the OS you can shrink it usin Disc Management.