Vista can’t create partition
I had an EXTREMELY annoying error today on my laptop. I have a number of partitions to seperate Windows, data etc so that I don’t have to backup any data to reinstall Windows (which I frequently do for many reasons) and to help reduce fragmentation etc.
Picture: Vista’s disk manager. Note that Vista home means Vista Ultimate USED at home.
I had to install a second partition of Vista for doing some other work so not to slow down my main partition, and Vista complained that it couldn’t format a partition because “there is not enough available space on drive.” What?? There’s 20gb free, and there’s not enough space to format it to 20gb (19.58 to be technical)? I tried less space, formatting raw, formatting in the Vista installer and none worked. It would let me format space at the end of the extended partition, but not at the start.
The end solution is to boot up the XP install disc, format the partition to RAW or NTFS, then reboot into Vista or the Vista install process and it will then format it.
One more thing to the list that Linux is better at.
Im pretty sure XP is the same. Cant create partition… you can delete and re-create but you cant split a drive. But there are programs out there to do this!
Yeah I had the same problem. I had 60GB unallocated disk space, tried to create a partition from it.. and no matter what size I chose it will complain about not having enough space. Anywho, I used a different 3rd part partitioning utility and it worked…. nice one vista.
I had a lot of issues with partitions on Vista, this now appears to be resolved with Windows 7
Joe Rossi
Director
RP Data Ltd