partitioning with Disk Manager

in a previous thread, NachtWacht wrote:
> Just setting up a new Vista Home Premium PC. Disk Management indicates
> 223G in drive C, with 213G available. But when I try to shrink the
> drive, it shows only 112G available shrink space. It also says "size
> of available shrink space can be restricted by snapshots or
> pagefiles..."

> Not sure what to do about snapshots and pagefiles, but I'd like to get
> the drive to about 40-50G. Any ideas? Thanks!

>Maybe it helps if you defragment the partition.
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I am having the same problem as NachtWacht. Just purchased a 200GByte
Hd laptop. Used built-in Disk Management tool to shrink disk.

End result-> C:\drive is 162GBytes in size. Free space in C:\
partition- 110 GBytes
-> New partition free space- 69GBytes.

Is this a bug?
Ran vista defragment tool-
How do I 'free up' 80GBytes or so of free space in the C:\ drive for
the new data partition?

Thank You, Feedscrn
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Vista hint: adjust computer for best performance = a more XP-like
appearance.

Any unmovable files in Vista will prevent further shrinking. You can use
your Vista DVD and delete the pagefile and hyberfil then run defrag from
there and then run the shrink from the DVD. Otherwise, you should look for
3rd party disk partitioning software, some of which is free and some is
shareware, so you can use it for this purpose during the trial period.

"feedscrn" <feedscrn@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> in a previous thread, NachtWacht wrote:
>> Just setting up a new Vista Home Premium PC. Disk Management indicates
>> 223G in drive C, with 213G available. But when I try to shrink the
>> drive, it shows only 112G available shrink space. It also says "size
>> of available shrink space can be restricted by snapshots or
>> pagefiles..."
>
>> Not sure what to do about snapshots and pagefiles, but I'd like to get
>> the drive to about 40-50G. Any ideas? Thanks!
>
>>Maybe it helps if you defragment the partition.
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> above from earlier thread. G__gle does not allow posts to threads
> after 30 days, hence this new one.
> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> - - - - - - -
> I am having the same problem as NachtWacht. Just purchased a 200GByte
> Hd laptop. Used built-in Disk Management tool to shrink disk.
>
> End result-> C:\drive is 162GBytes in size. Free space in C:\
> partition- 110 GBytes
> -> New partition free space- 69GBytes.
>
> Is this a bug?
> Ran vista defragment tool-
> How do I 'free up' 80GBytes or so of free space in the C:\ drive for
> the new data partition?
>
> Thank You, Feedscrn
> +-------------------------------------------+
> | The screen is hungry, feed it! |
> +-------------------------------------------+
>
> Vista hint: adjust computer for best performance = a more XP-like
> appearance.
>

On Sep 8, 11:53 am, "John Barnes" <jbar...@email.net> wrote:
> Any unmovable files in Vista will prevent further shrinking. You can use
> your Vista DVD and delete the pagefile and hyberfil then run defrag from
> there and then run the shrink from the DVD. Otherwise, you should look for
> 3rd party disk partitioning software, some of which is free and some is
> shareware, so you can use it for this purpose during the trial period.

Thank you for your response.

I prefer XP... but did not have a choice, as the OS came with the PC
(no Vista CD included).

Looks like 3rd party software then. BootItNG and Acronis have shareware and
there are freeware programs. You can search this site
http://www.betanews.com/


"feedscrn" <feedscrn@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> On Sep 8, 11:53 am, "John Barnes" <jbar...@email.net> wrote:
>> Any unmovable files in Vista will prevent further shrinking. You can
>> use
>> your Vista DVD and delete the pagefile and hyberfil then run defrag from
>> there and then run the shrink from the DVD. Otherwise, you should look
>> for
>> 3rd party disk partitioning software, some of which is free and some is
>> shareware, so you can use it for this purpose during the trial period.
>
> Thank you for your response.
>
> I prefer XP... but did not have a choice, as the OS came with the PC
> (no Vista CD included).
>

John Barnes wrote:
> Any unmovable files in Vista will prevent further shrinking. You can
> use your Vista DVD and delete the pagefile and hyberfil then run defrag
> from there and then run the shrink from the DVD. Otherwise, you should
> look for 3rd party disk partitioning software, some of which is free and
> some is shareware, so you can use it for this purpose during the trial
> period.
>
> "feedscrn" <feedscrn@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:1189231157.649302.115470@r29g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...
>> in a previous thread, NachtWacht wrote:
>>> Just setting up a new Vista Home Premium PC. Disk Management indicates
>>> 223G in drive C, with 213G available. But when I try to shrink the
>>> drive, it shows only 112G available shrink space. It also says "size
>>> of available shrink space can be restricted by snapshots or
>>> pagefiles..."
>>
>>> Not sure what to do about snapshots and pagefiles, but I'd like to get
>>> the drive to about 40-50G. Any ideas? Thanks!
>>
>>> Maybe it helps if you defragment the partition.
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> above from earlier thread. G__gle does not allow posts to threads
>> after 30 days, hence this new one.
>> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
>> - - - - - - -
>> I am having the same problem as NachtWacht. Just purchased a 200GByte
>> Hd laptop. Used built-in Disk Management tool to shrink disk.
>>
>> End result-> C:\drive is 162GBytes in size. Free space in C:\
>> partition- 110 GBytes
>> -> New partition free space- 69GBytes.
>>
>> Is this a bug?
>> Ran vista defragment tool-
>> How do I 'free up' 80GBytes or so of free space in the C:\ drive for
>> the new data partition?
>>
>> Thank You, Feedscrn
>> +-------------------------------------------+
>> | The screen is hungry, feed it! |
>> +-------------------------------------------+
>>
>> Vista hint: adjust computer for best performance = a more XP-like
>> appearance.
>>
>


To add to that John if the OP seriously wants to move stuff around and
thinks there may be a need to do so in the future Acronis True Image
represents a small price to pay for the security it brings when doing
such alterations. Their tech support is fast and helpful and the
software works very well and quite quickly.

On Sep 8, 12:44 pm, Charlie Tame <char...@tames.net> wrote:

> To add to that John if the OP seriously wants to move stuff around and
> thinks there may be a need to do so in the future Acronis True Image
> represents a small price to pay for the security it brings when doing
> such alterations. Their tech support is fast and helpful and the
> software works very well and quite quickly.

Thank you for your reply.

Maybe the 'Shrink' option will be fixed with a M$ Service Package.
That would be nice. Microsoft?