Shrinking a partition...

> Looking for advice,
>
> I have tried to shrink a partition on my HDD but have only been able to
> shrink it by 415mb, this is not much when you consider that I have 1Tb to
> play with!!!
>
> I have two 500gig HD's using raid 0 striped (think that's the correct way
> to
> describe it), and wish to add partitions so I can keep my operating
> system,
> devices and game separate.
>
> I already have a "Recovery" partition (15gig) which I am now using to hold
> my swap file as I thought this may be causing an issue (didn't help). The
> help menu told me about "Shadows" but could not find how to delete or even
> if
> they were causing an issue, or even if I was using them, when trying to
> shrink the current partition.
>
> Any help would be appreciated on how to resolve this or even if there is a
> program to make life really easy.
>
>
> Many thanks
>
>

> Hi,
>
> If there is a locked, immovable file on the drive near the end of the
> volume, then Vista's drive tool will not be able to shrink the volume beyond
> that point. To do so you need to use a third party tool that works outside
> of Vista such as Acronis' Disk Director or Terabyteunlimited's BootIT NG.
>
> A RAID0 stripe, by the way, is when the total volume is the sum of two
> physical drives, and the data stream is split between them. The downside to
> this configuration is that if one drive has a sudden failure, all data on
> both is lost. Make sure you are using a good back solution that involves
> saving to alternate media, and be prepared for the eventual failure -
> perhaps sudden - of one the drives.
>
> --
> 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
>
> "RedZedSmee" <RedZedSmee@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:830F5DB1-0670-4F81-9DCB-50D59358D5D3@microsoft.com...

> > Looking for advice,
> >
> > I have tried to shrink a partition on my HDD but have only been able to
> > shrink it by 415mb, this is not much when you consider that I have 1Tb to
> > play with!!!
> >
> > I have two 500gig HD's using raid 0 striped (think that's the correct way
> > to
> > describe it), and wish to add partitions so I can keep my operating
> > system,
> > devices and game separate.
> >
> > I already have a "Recovery" partition (15gig) which I am now using to hold
> > my swap file as I thought this may be causing an issue (didn't help). The
> > help menu told me about "Shadows" but could not find how to delete or even
> > if
> > they were causing an issue, or even if I was using them, when trying to
> > shrink the current partition.
> >
> > Any help would be appreciated on how to resolve this or even if there is a
> > program to make life really easy.
> >
> >
> > Many thanks
> >
> >

>
>

>I appreciate the advise, so thanks for that. Is there a particular setup
>that
> you would recommended for the HDD considering the drawbacks of their
> current
> configuration. The system came set up this way primarily for performance.
> And
> would I really notice a drop in performance if I changed it?
>
>
>
>
>
> "Rick Rogers" wrote:
>

>> Hi,
>>
>> If there is a locked, immovable file on the drive near the end of the
>> volume, then Vista's drive tool will not be able to shrink the volume
>> beyond
>> that point. To do so you need to use a third party tool that works
>> outside
>> of Vista such as Acronis' Disk Director or Terabyteunlimited's BootIT NG.
>>
>> A RAID0 stripe, by the way, is when the total volume is the sum of two
>> physical drives, and the data stream is split between them. The downside
>> to
>> this configuration is that if one drive has a sudden failure, all data on
>> both is lost. Make sure you are using a good back solution that involves
>> saving to alternate media, and be prepared for the eventual failure -
>> perhaps sudden - of one the drives.
>>
>> --
>> 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
>>
>> "RedZedSmee" <RedZedSmee@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:830F5DB1-0670-4F81-9DCB-50D59358D5D3@microsoft.com...

>> > Looking for advice,
>> >
>> > I have tried to shrink a partition on my HDD but have only been able to
>> > shrink it by 415mb, this is not much when you consider that I have 1Tb
>> > to
>> > play with!!!
>> >
>> > I have two 500gig HD's using raid 0 striped (think that's the correct
>> > way
>> > to
>> > describe it), and wish to add partitions so I can keep my operating
>> > system,
>> > devices and game separate.
>> >
>> > I already have a "Recovery" partition (15gig) which I am now using to
>> > hold
>> > my swap file as I thought this may be causing an issue (didn't help).
>> > The
>> > help menu told me about "Shadows" but could not find how to delete or
>> > even
>> > if
>> > they were causing an issue, or even if I was using them, when trying to
>> > shrink the current partition.
>> >
>> > Any help would be appreciated on how to resolve this or even if there
>> > is a
>> > program to make life really easy.
>> >
>> >
>> > Many thanks
>> >
>> >

>>
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