How-To Geek Forums Topic: Vista - Can't create new partition

How-To Geek Forums Topic: Vista - Can't create new partition http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ How-To Geek Forums Topic: Vista - Can't create new partition en Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:12:49 +0000 michael on "Vista - Can't create new partition" http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/vista-cant-create-new-partition#post-5560 Mon, 24 Dec 2007 19:18:54 +0000 michael 5560@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ Hmm. If it is not formatted (which it is not) then it should be black and say "Unallocated". Maybe this will help: <a href='http://www.vistax64.com/vista-hardware-devices/68912-dynamic-volume-offline-disk-manager-invalid-diskpart.html' rel="nofollow">http://www.vistax64.com/vista-hardware-devices/68912-dynamic-volume-offline-disk-manager-invalid-diskpart.html</a> -- Mike Aline on "Vista - Can't create new partition" http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/vista-cant-create-new-partition#post-5369 Fri, 21 Dec 2007 16:06:20 +0000 Aline 5369@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ I'm trying to partition drive C but it won't let me. New laptop is Toshiba Satellite and had the store configure it for me since I'm new to Vista. 1. Through Disk Management, I shrink drive C and now have an unallocated space of 51G. 2. From the unallocated space, I create a new simple volume. It goes through the Wizard, but then I get the following error message: "The attempted operation is invalid. Either the parameters specified are invalid or the operation cannot be completed on the selected object." 3. The contour of the unallocated space is highlighted in black instead of green. Is that an indication of something? And shouldn't it say: Free space instead of unallocated? Additional info: There are currently 4 partitions. They are: 1: 1.46GB Healthy (EISA Configure) 2. C: 121GB NTFS Healthy (System, Boot, Page File, etc.) 3. D: 5.88 BG NTFS Healthy (Primary Partition) - This is reserved for a recovery 4. 5.34 GB Healthy (Primary Partition) - Don't know what this is for My 51 GB Unallocated is between C: and D: I'm logged in as an Administrator. Are there addition privileges that I would need to have? UAC is off. Thank you in advance.