Shrink partition

I want to shrink the partition vista is stored on on my hdd. At the moment
the hdd takes up all of my hard drive 25gb of which is free so i want to
shrink it by 20 or so but when i select shrink partition it comes up saying 0
space to shrink. Any idea whats wrong?

Thanks, Will

Will...I have read your post about 7 times now but still cannot follow what
you are trying to say. What do you mean by "At the moment the hdd takes up
all of my hard drive..."? If you are translating to English, I apologize. Do
you have a single drive with multiple partitions and you want to change the
size of one of the partitions?

Maybe someone else can make heads-or-tails out of your post :-)

Tim

"will1234" <will1234@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I want to shrink the partition vista is stored on on my hdd. At the moment
> the hdd takes up all of my hard drive 25gb of which is free so i want to
> shrink it by 20 or so but when i select shrink partition it comes up
> saying 0
> space to shrink. Any idea whats wrong?
>
> Thanks, Will

Hi Will,

Space is often reserved for restore points, hibernation, paging, temp
folders, etc. Plus, the system will want at least 15% free space for service
operations like defrag. I would recommend against leaving only 5GB of free
space. You can use a third party partitioning utility to shrink the volume
if you really, really have to.

--
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

"will1234" <will1234@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I want to shrink the partition vista is stored on on my hdd. At the moment
> the hdd takes up all of my hard drive 25gb of which is free so i want to
> shrink it by 20 or so but when i select shrink partition it comes up
> saying 0
> space to shrink. Any idea whats wrong?
>
> Thanks, Will

Sorry about the bad grammar. I have a 100gb HDD with one partition that has
27gb free. I want to shrink this partition by 15gb so i can dual-boot Vista
and Ubuntu. AFAIK no third party software can correctly edit Vista NTFS
partitions. When i go on Disk Management and try to shrink the volume it
tells me the Size of avaliable shrink space is 0mb. I dont understand why its
saying this. Anyone have any ideas?

"will1234" wrote

> Sorry about the bad grammar. I have a 100gb HDD with one partition that
> has
> 27gb free. I want to shrink this partition by 15gb so i can dual-boot
> Vista
> and Ubuntu. AFAIK no third party software can correctly edit Vista NTFS
> partitions. When i go on Disk Management and try to shrink the volume it
> tells me the Size of avaliable shrink space is 0mb. I dont understand why
> its
> saying this. Anyone have any ideas?

There are some files on the partition that can't be moved by the utility in
Vista. You're misinformed about 3rd party partitioning software. Acronis
Disk Director Suite 10 and BootIt NG work fine to manage Vista partitions.

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Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]

"Rock" <Rock@nospam.net> wrote in message
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> "will1234" wrote

>
> There are some files on the partition that can't be moved by the utility
> in Vista. You're misinformed about 3rd party partitioning software.
> Acronis Disk Director Suite 10 and BootIt NG work fine to manage Vista
> partitions.
>
> --
> Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]

I use Paragon Partition manager in Vista