Changing The Partition Sizes; About Hard Disk Partitioning; Creating A Hard Disk Partition - Sony VGN-AW31M/H Troubleshooting Manual

Changing the partition sizes

This section describes how to change the partition sizes.

About hard disk partitioning

Hard disk partitioning is to divide a hard disk into multiple partitions. It allows
you to organize your data or software on each hard disk partition more
effectively.
The computer has a partition (C drive) only with the default settings*. You can
repartition the hard disk into two partitions: C drive and D drive, and use the
D drive as a location to back up your data. For information on how to create
a partition, see "Creating a hard disk partition" described below.
* The D drive may be already configured at the time of purchase, depending on the model.

Creating a hard disk partition

The steps described here take as an example the hard disk partitioning to
change the size of the C drive and create another partition.
There are two options to create a partition:
❑ Create a partition using the Windows feature.
❑ Create a partition in the recovery process.
If you reduce the volume of the C drive partition, you may not create recovery discs or
complete the recovery process successfully because the free space on the hard disk
is not enough.
If you create a partition in the recovery process, all the data previously stored on a
hard disk will be deleted.
If you want to create a partition using the recovery discs on models without a built-in
optical disc drive, you need to connect an external optical disc drive (not supplied).
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