Hi,
Yep, you have to use a different utility to shrink the volume beyond that
point. Vista's drive tool cannot get past a locked file on the drive, and
the defrag utility will not move it. You have to either use a different
defragger that can, or a different partition utility that works outside of
Windows and can move the file.
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Best of Luck,
Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help -
www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts
http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
"cryocynique" <cryocynique@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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>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