Shrinking volume

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Nish

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Hi Guys,
Although the question that I've asked below has been answered earlier,I thought of bringing it up again as I couldn't find the exact solution anywhere...

Q: How can you shrink your C Drive to the capacity that you want?
(How can you get around the error message - disable pagefiles and snapshots in the volume...)

I couldn't shrink more than 10GB from C Drive even after disabling pagefiles and snapshots...

If someone can reply for this that'll be great...
 

My Computer

System One

Hello Nish, welcome to Vista Forums!



Have a look at the tutorial at the link below; Partition Wizard will re-size Windows for you.

Be advised: if done wrong this could make Vista un-bootable, be sure to have reliable back-ups of any data that you don't want to lose.



Partition Wizard : Use the Bootable CD
 

My Computer

System One

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    8GB Dominator 8500C5D
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    Realtek HD 7-1
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    1x 47" LCD HDMI & 2x 26" LCD HDMI
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    1920x1080P & 1920x1200
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Nish said:
Hi Guys,
Although the question that I've asked below has been answered earlier,I thought of bringing it up again as I couldn't find the exact solution anywhere...

Q: How can you shrink your C Drive to the capacity that you want?
(How can you get around the error message - disable pagefiles and snapshots in the volume...)

I couldn't shrink more than 10GB from C Drive even after disabling pagefiles and snapshots...

If someone can reply for this that'll be great...
Click to expand...


I had a similar problem. I wanted to Shrink some of my C drive and create a partition but within Windows, it didn't let me do the desire amount because of the "system has some control records high up in the disc for example the master record".

I used a FREE program called Partition Manager Free Edition.
Paragon Partition Manager Free Edition - Leading partitioning software! | PARAGON Software Group - free partition software, resize partition

Once I installed I was able to use a move/resize the partition to the amount I wanted. It will require a reboot and a short program will run and actually create the partition.

Problem solved.
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    AMD/GIGABYTE
    CPU
    AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 6000+ (2 CPUs), ~3.
    Motherboard
    Gigabyte GA-M57SLI-S4 (rev. 2.0)
    Memory
    2048MB RAM
    Graphics Card(s)
    NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT
    Sound Card
    Realtek High Definition Audio
    Monitor(s) Displays
    SyncMaster T220/T220G,SyncMaster Magic T220/T220G(Digital)
    Screen Resolution
    1680 by 1050 pixels
    Hard Drives
    Seagate ST310003 40AS SCSI Disk Device
    Western Digital WDC WD50 00AAJS-00YFA SCSI Disk Device
    PSU
    Thermaltake 500W
    Internet Speed
    VERY FAST>>>>!!!!
    Other Info
    Optiarc DVD RW AD-7191S SCSI CdRom Device
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