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Creating a partition in my 1 terabyte HD

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Hello, I'm not really clever with this type of product. So here's my probably simple question.

I just purchase a new PC and it has a 1 tb hard disk. I was a bit disapointed that the gentleman did not create a data partition of, say, 800gb.

Someone told me that Acronis 2016 True Image could do this pretty easily. On top of making a backup image of my PC at the present.

Is that perfectly true? Don't want you to tell me how to do it just if this is the right product.

Thanks very much.

D. Lamarche

Melbourne

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Daniel, you do not need ATIH 2016 to do what you are asking, and it is not an operation that it is intended to be used to do.

You could buy Acronis Disk Director 12 which will do what you want, but you can also do this from within Windows very easily.

See the following webpages that show / tell you how to do this.

Easily Shrink a Volume on a Windows 7 Disk

Resize a Partition for Free in Windows 7, 8.x, 10, or Vista

Hi Steve. Thanks for your reply. Saved me a couple of dollars!!!

I looked quickly at the pages you refer to. Since I'm a bit ignorant about the lingo used there I has trouble finding how to ... Create a Partition not resize it. My disk is a 1 tb and I'd like, say, 250 gb for applications and the rest for data. Maybe resizing a partition is the same as creating one but I had trouble finding this in the 2 links you sent me. Any hints? I'll Google it on my side.

Thanks again for your reply.

D. Lamarche

Right click on the main parition and "shrink it" the amount you want (or the amount Windows will allow).  Once the main parition has been shrunk, you can then create a new parition on the unused/blank space. Not sure what OS you have, but it's basically the same with Win 7 and newer.

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/gg309169.aspx

 

Ohhh! Well that is certainely easy isn't it. In this PC I have Windows 10. I skipped ver 8.1 Thanks Bobbo!!!

Will have a go

D. Lamarche