Dell xps 1530 4 partitions

[Guest]

I've bought a new DELL xps 1530 with a 250GB hard disk.

I want to resize this big disk so that I can have 2 "partitions": one for windows vista and installing apps , with say 50GB and the other with about 200G, for storing other files, and not to loose them in the event of a Windows reinstall.

I used Windows Vista Disk Administrator to squeeze the C: partition and now it is 120GB in size , and there are 100GB of free space.

Then, using this Windows Vista Disk Administrator and positioning the mouse in the grey zone (unoccupied disk) I tried to create a new partition but Windows send me an error telling that there was no space available (but I recently freed about 100GB !!!!)

I saw that in this notebook there are other 3 small partitions, dedicated to Recovery, Utils and so on.

¿ There is some limit in the number of partitions a PC can have ?

Please, could anyone help me.

Thanks a lot.
Raul C. Leslie

 

[dwellman]

Hmm, so you don't get a Vista DVD with the Dells, or do you? You have use the DVD to create and resize partitions, safer than doing it from within windows. Otherwise, a surefire way is Gparted http://gparted.sourceforge.net/.