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i have a gateway laptop that was installed windows vista business 64bit though its has no partition i have tried several partitioning tools like paragon ,partition magic etc at no luck please assist me what to do

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: a few clarifying points that build on what and said and show the common root causes and safe fixes.

The most likely reasons third‑party partitioners fail on a Vista x64 system are: immovable system files (pagefile, hibernation file, MFT, VSS shadow copies), disk errors or bad sectors, an OEM/recovery layout or "dynamic" disk type, or using tools that do not support Vista x64. Any resize of the boot partition can also change boot data and require repair afterward.

A practical, safe sequence that fixes most cases:

  • Back up everything (image or file copy) and make Windows recovery/startup media first.
  • Temporarily disable hibernation (powercfg -h off), turn off System Restore and set the pagefile to none while resizing.
  • Run chkdsk /f and then a full defragment of the volume to consolidate free space.
  • Retry resizing from Windows or, if Windows tools still refuse, use a bootable offline partitioner (for example, GParted Live) to move/shrink the NTFS partition.
  • After any offline move, be prepared to repair the boot loader with the Windows repair disc / Startup Repair.

Notes and cautions: MBR disks are limited to four primary partitions (use an extended partition for more), and "dynamic" disks behave differently and are harder to convert without data loss. Moving the system partition can make Windows unbootable if recovery media is not available. Always image the disk first so you can restore if something goes wrong.

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i have a gateway laptop that was installed windows vista business 64bit though its has no partition i have tried several partitioning tools like paragon ,partition magic etc at no luck please assist me what to do

Hello,

Have you tried clicking on start, in the search box type disk management and click on create and format hard disk partitions.

- Hope this helps.

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If it has an operating system it has a partition.
Do you want more partitions? Why?

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