Partition hard drive on HP laptop

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I have a HP nx9005 laptop with 30gb hard drive. I want to partition the hard drive but the primary partition is the same size as the whole hard drive. How do I reduce this partition to allow me to then use the unallocated space. I dont want to format the hard drive. Any ideas?

Wizardofeden

 

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A 3rd party program is needed. Partition Magic is a good one. There are
others.

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Richard Urban

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"wizardofeden" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have a HP nx9005 laptop with 30gb hard drive. I want to partition the
>hard drive but the primary partition is the same size as the whole hard
>drive. How do I reduce this partition to allow me to then use the
>unallocated space. I dont want to format the hard drive. Any ideas?
>
> Wizardofeden

 

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wizardofeden wrote:
> I have a HP nx9005 laptop with 30gb hard drive. I want to partition
> the hard drive but the primary partition is the same size as the
> whole hard drive. How do I reduce this partition to allow me to then
> use the unallocated space. I dont want to format the hard drive. Any
> ideas?
>
> Wizardofeden

You need a disk management utility. I use Partition Magic 8.