I wanted to shrink then Vista partition from 60 gig to 30 gig. I first tried
using Vista Disk Management. I could only get down to 42 gig due to being
blocked by unmovable files on the Vista partition. After booting into the
Acronis Disk Director Suite (version 10) I was able to shrink the partition
down to my
desired 30 gig.
The partition survived the operation and I have been using Vista RTM for the
past 2 months with no strange occurrences.
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"TheMadPoster" <TheMadPoster@DragonNote.net> wrote in message
news:ef8KtUaVHHA.4668@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>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
>>
>