Carey Frisch [MVP]

Purchase an external hard drive and perform periodic backups to it.
It does not make any sense to have data on a separate partition
that is on the same hard drive. If you hard drive should fail, you'll
lose everything!

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience -
Windows System & Performance

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"cryocynique" wrote:

I have Vista Home Premium preloaded on a Dell Inspiron 1520 with a 320gb hard
drive. I would like to isolate the OS from my data by shrinking the OS
partition to 42GB and creating another partition for my data. However,
Vista's partitioning utility says the minimum I can shrink the existing
partition to is around 176gb. I suspect that even though I have defragged
the hard drive, there is some part of the OS that is sitting on the drive out
far enough to cause this. I can't verify this because Vista's defrag utility
doesn't show you a map of the drive during defrag. Anyone know of a way
around this?

Thanks!
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cryocynique