Technical Manual 2

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This manual will show you the steps necessary to partition your hard drive on a windows vista computer. Partitioning your hard drive in Windows Vista

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Vista partitioning

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This manual will show you the steps necessary to partition your hard drive on a windows vista computer.

Partitioning your hard drive in Windows Vista

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What you will need

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A. A computer with a Windows Vista operating system

B. A hard drive large enough to be partitioned (Larger than 10 gigabytes)

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Step 1Right click on the Computer button on the start menu and select Manage

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Step 2Left click on Disk Management on the Computer Management Screen

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Step 3Right click on the primary partition Disk 0 and select Shrink Volume…

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Step 4Enter the size of the desired partition then click Next

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Step 5Right click on the new unallocated space and select New Simple Volume…

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Step 6Click Next on the New Simple Volume Wizard menu

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Step 7Click Next on the Specify Volume Size menu

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Step 8Assign a drive letter from the drop down menu and click Next

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Step 9Format the volume as NTFS and name the partition then click Next

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Step 10Review the selected settings then click Finish

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Step 11Verify that the partition shows up in the Computer Management dialog box with the right settings

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Partition Created

• Now the new partition will show up in My Computer

• You can now write to and read from your new partition

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