I did find that solution online in a forum somewhere so I tried it, with no
luck. I am at wits end with this thing.
~Andy
"Jane C" <jellybean@NOSPAMxjgarage.org> wrote in message
news:94A15AC0-2C7D-4E89-BBD5-9DB32E4D1F09@microsoft.com...
> 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.
>
> --
> Jane, not plain 
64 bit enabled :-)
> Batteries not included. Braincell on vacation ;-)
> "TheMadPoster" <TheMadPoster@DragonNote.net> wrote in message
> news:%23BewuHXVHHA.4188@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>>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
>