Two of us have been searching for hours (forums, newsgroups, google) on how
to create more then 4 partitions in on the same drive in Vista. We
understand you can't have any more then 4 primary partitions. Here is how
the Dell M1530 XPS came preconfigured as:

Partition 1 = OEM (Dell
Utilities)
Partition 2 = Primiary (Dell Recovery)
Partition 3 = Primary (C
Drive with Vista)
Partition 0 = Extended
Partition 4 =
Logical

NOTE: Partition 0 or 4 is for Dell Media
Direct.

The volumes are:
Volume 0 E DVD-ROM
Volume 1 D
Recovery
Volume C OS

Partition 3 is 220GB in size. I want to
shrink it to 60GB's. This would leave about 160GB as Unallocated that I want
to format and assign a drive letter to (a Volume I guess).

I have been using BootItNg for years and swear by it. What I typically do
is have the OS and programs on one partition and ALL data on another including various images. This is my first experience working with Vista
limitations.

I had considered deleting some partitions, especially
the MD one. Dell taking the route they choose for MD was a very foolish one
IMO. Version 4 is supposed to address the issue, but as you have pointed
out isn't it reduntant given the included programs in Vista.

I'm
aware that there are many options such as deleting partitions, but I would still like to no how to
create more then 4 partitions using Bootitng or Vista's DiskPart. Actually
I can easily create more partitions with Bootitng or Vista's Shrink, *but what I can't figure
out is how to FORMAT them*. This is because when attempting to use the Vista Disk
Manager Simple Volume wizard on the Unallocated space and click Finish
thereby expecting it to start the format process, all that happens is the
same message "There is not enough space available on the disk(s) to complete
this operation." Doesn't matter what size value I use to shrink, the same
message is always the result. Searching the web tells the same story over
and over by many users including here: http://forums.pcworld.com/thread/33120