Did you defrag the drive before shrinking? There may be system files that
are fixed in place on the disk - if they can't be moved, then that will
limit the available shrink space.
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"TheMadPoster" <TheMadPoster@DragonNote.net> wrote in message
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>I have a 74 gig drive with 53gigs free. Vista Home Premium installed. I
>was allowed to shrink to shrink the partition once, freeing up 1.4 gigs..
>I want to dual boot to 64bit Vista so I need to free about 20gigs to
>install 64bit. It keeps telling me that if snapshots (?) and Paging files
>are stored on the drive that I am trying to partition it will reduce the
>size that I am allowed to shrink. Well I have no idea what snapshots
>are... System Restore is OFF, and my virtual memory is set to 1.53 gigs.
>My recycle bin is set to 500megs, and IE7's cache is set to 1meg.
>
> So...wtf? I have searched all over the net to find an answer. So here I
> am... Anyone know how I can repartition my drive??
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> ~Andy