Vista - Disk Manager not allowing me to shrink partition...

coolgamer512 wrote:How does one get that space back? For instance I shrunk the main volume
by 10GiB on my laptop to allow for a Linux OS. If I choose to dump
Linux will the main volume then absorb the space again? I'm obviously
not very Vista savvy so thanks.

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rgds
Roberto


"Bob Taylor" <bt@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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hey, i had the same problem!! easily fixed, all you need to do using the
diskmgmt.msc:

-format partition
-delete partition (should come up with unallocated space)
-extend the other partition

hope this helps!! coment back

steve


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On Sun, 1 Mar 2009 12:07:36 +0530, stevesmith1990
<stevesmith1990.3ocyrc@xxxxxx> wrote:
I believe you just replied to a 2-year-old post. Not cool.

Or maybe it was to a 7-month-old post. Still not cool.

Your answer was wrong anyway.

You need to:
1) Disable hibernation through command prompt. Type in elevated prompt: powercfg -h off
2) Disable system restore: Start Menu, rightclick on My Computer, click system protection in left-hand list, uncheck the drive you want to disable it on, and confirm your choice.
3) Disable the pagefile: Open up System in Control Panel, then Advanced System Settings \ Advanced \ Performance \ Advanced \ Change \ No Paging File.
4) Disable the kernel memory dump. Open up System in Control Panel, then Advanced System Settings \ Advanced \ Startup and Recovery \ Settings \ System Failure \ change drop-down menu to (none).
5) Run the disk cleanup wizard and be sure to delete all previous restore points and hibernation files.
6) Reboot
7) Download the 30-day free trial of PerfectDisk 10 Professional.
8) In the PD10 interface, select you drive and run a SMARTPlacement defrag
9) When that is done, do a consolidate free space defrag. This will create the largest chunks of fre space as possible.
10) When that is finished, in the main page of PD10, right next to the size of your hard drive, check the box that says "boot." This will defrag Windows system files that can only be moved when Windows is not yet booted. This will make it defrag system files EVERY time you boot, so you should probably turn it off after the first use.

Using these 10 steps, I went from 3GB available for a partition to over 104GB. I would strongly advise against uing GParted and similar utilities unless you REALLY know what you're doing. After you have done all the partitions you wish, you should probably re-enable system restore, hibernation, page filing, and kernel memory dump. I now have a 200GB Vista x64 Home Premium partition (main), a 25GB partition for testing Windows 7, and a 10GB recovery partition. Cheers!

julzx94;4303422 Wrote:Thank you for that clear and useful guide, julzx94. It worked perfectly
here. Step 8) took about 8 hours with a 300GB drive, step 9) around
three quarters of an hour, and step 10) a few minutes. (The time
estimates the program gave were widely off mark).

After this, the amount of free space for a second partition increased
from 27GB to 150GB.

pwesth


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I just want to notice you have to run the cmd as an administrator by
right click on the cmd icon and selecting " Run as administrator" so you
can use this command line also:
powercfg.exe /hibernate off


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