Thank you for your generous and informative reply.

Grant


"Rock" <Rock@nospam.net> wrote in message
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> "infoseeker" wrote
> > Hi,
> >
> > Where can I post a question regarding Windows Vista Home Premium?
> >
> > I believe that my question is simple . . .
> >
> > Does Windows Vista Home Premium software have a partitioning utility?
> >
> > I wish to partition a 320GB drive and Norton PartitionMagic is not
> > compatible (according to Prashanta.Kumar of their tech support
department
> > in
> > some other country).
>
> You certainly didn't need to crosspost to all those XP newsgroups.
>
> Vista, like XP can partition a drive during the installation process.
Also
> it has more capability than XP after Vista is installed for partitioning
> including shrinking a drive, creating an extended partition, and expanding
a
> drive, but there are limitations to it. For example to add free space to
a
> volume that free space has to reside to the right of that volume, and
Vista
> has no means to move that free space or to move a volume.
>
> Acronis Disk Director Suite 10 works fine in Vista, as does BootIT NG from
> Terabyte Unlimited.
>
> Here is a list of Vista specific newsgroups.
> microsoft.public.windows.vista.administration_acco unts_password
> microsoft.public.windows.vista.file_management
> microsoft.public.windows.vista.games
> microsoft.public.windows.vista.general
> microsoft.public.windows.vista.hardware_assessment
> microsoft.public.windows.vista.hardware_devices
> microsoft.public.windows.vista.installation_setup
> microsoft.public.windows.vista.mail
> microsoft.public.windows.vista.music_pictures_vide o
> microsoft.public.windows.vista.networking_sharing
> microsoft.public.windows.vista.performance_mainten ance
> microsoft.public.windows.vista.print_fax_scan
> microsoft.public.windows.vista.security
>
> installation_setup or the general newsgroup would have been good places
for
> this question.
>
> --
> Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]
>