Partition drive by shrinking in Disk management

microsofthater · May 7, 2009

168 GIGS NOT USED AND ONLY 96 MB AVAILABLE TO SHRINK DRIVE FOR NEW PARTITION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHAT THE **** IS VISTA DOING?????!!!!! I'VE TRIED CHKDSK, RUNNING PERFECT DISK, DISKEEPER, SMART DEFRAG. CAN SOMEONE PLEASE HELP ME WITH THIS? I'VE DONE SO MANY GOOGLE SEARCHES TRYING TO FIND THE ANSWER THAT I'M STARTING TO SEE GOOGLE NO MATTER WHERE I LOOK.

Thank you for ahead of time for your help. Marc

Brink · May 7, 2009

Hello Microsofthater, and welcome to Vista Forums.

The size of the available space to be shrunk can be restricted by the amount of space currently allocated to on the hard drive for the virtual memory page file, System Restore max size, and hibernation files. The red warning box under step 6 in the tutorial below can explain more about this and help you work around this to a point.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/95398-disk-management-shrink-partition.html

Hope this helps,
Shawn

lordbob75 · May 7, 2009

Marc,

First off, don't shout. All caps indicates shouting or yelling on forums.

Second, your name isn't very nice....

Third, read some of the articles linked in my sig on How To Ask For Help so you can help us help you.

~Lordbob

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