Can't create partition on ext drive

[rremando]

Hi hope someone has an easy answer for me.

Running win7
I have an ext drive fat32 250gb (238gb) with 9.5gb free
Using ease us to create a partition

I'm trying to partition the drive into one large and the
Other a small partition 8gb or so. I want to do this
Without disturbing the data I already have on the drive.
If you're familiar with ease us software; you can shrink
The partition original size which creates unallocated
Space that can be used to create a new partition...
However i cannot shrink the size/resize. It just won't
Let me and I've come to a bump in the road.

Any ideas? Is there a step that I am missing or do I
Need more free space to create a partition?

My drive is basically a laptop drive inside a plastic case.

 

[quesionboy]

Hi hope someone has an easy answer for me.

Running win7
I have an ext drive fat32 250gb (238gb) with 9.5gb free
Using ease us to create a partition

I'm trying to partition the drive into one large and the
Other a small partition 8gb or so. I want to do this
Without disturbing the data I already have on the drive.
If you're familiar with ease us software; you can shrink
The partition original size which creates unallocated
Space that can be used to create a new partition...
However i cannot shrink the size/resize. It just won't
Let me and I've come to a bump in the road.

Any ideas? Is there a step that I am missing or do I
Need more free space to create a partition?

My drive is basically a laptop drive inside a plastic case.

Won't let you shrink partition in disk management? What error report? Here I have an article about "how to make partition in Windows 7" Hope this could help you.
Best Regards

 

[9o2]

Have you tried Windows 7 Disk Management? The "shrink volume" option may help you.

 

[rremando]

Hmm no didn't try that actually but I def will give it a go.
Thanks guys!

 

[ziuus1]

Hi hope someone has an easy answer for me.

Running win7
I have an ext drive fat32 250gb (238gb) with 9.5gb free
Using ease us to create a partition

I'm trying to partition the drive into one large and the
Other a small partition 8gb or so. I want to do this
Without disturbing the data I already have on the drive.
If you're familiar with ease us software; you can shrink
The partition original size which creates unallocated
Space that can be used to create a new partition...
However i cannot shrink the size/resize. It just won't
Let me and I've come to a bump in the road.

Any ideas? Is there a step that I am missing or do I
Need more free space to create a partition?

My drive is basically a laptop drive inside a plastic case.

Rrem,

From my experience you may not have enough allocated space to make a new volume

 

[rremando]

Rrem,

From my experience you may not have enough allocated space to make a new volume

thats what I was afraid of hmm

 

[rremando]

okay so looks as though I cannot shrink the volume because it is formatted in fat32. So it appears that I have only two (maybe two) options (which I will pass on): backup -> delete partition and create two NTFS partitions Or -> delete partition and create several 32gb fat32 partitions until all unallocated space is used up...

the later is much better for me as I usually use this as my ext playstation3 drive which I believe needs to be fat32. However thats a lot of backing up, partitioning and sorting out files and I'm going to opt out.

Thanks for everybodys help!