No system is an island - Using Windows And Tech Step By Step

Windows Vista comes with in-built partition creation which makes it possible to make new partitions on fly from Vista.This takes care of basic partitioning needs without purchasing any extra application.

Say if we have Vista installed on a single disk with no partition,we can shrink this single disk so as to have a new partition without the use of any external partition sizing utility.

With administrator privileges,go to Start > Run > diskmgmt.msc



Select the volume that needs to be shrinked (i.e from which a new partition needs to be created).
Right click and select Shrink Volume.



Specify the size (this will be restricted based on the current disk space utilised on current volume and also size of paging file and other system parameters in case the system volume is to be shrinked).




Select Shrink.
Once complete,there will be a unformatted volume created,format it as per choice (NTFS/FAT32) and label it.

All done.