Disk management

[emad senejani]

when ever i try to create a new partition (shrinking volume) on my my c
drive (local drive) i get an error that there is not enough disk space
available on the disk to complete this operation. But in fact i have more
than enough space. my hardrive has 366 gigs of space and 296 gigs is left. i
am trying to partition only 5 gigs. Any ideas why i get this error?

heres the exact message:
http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w164/hydraulicsuperman/shrinkingproblem.jpg

Thanks
Emad

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi,

It happens because Vista's drive management utility cannot move immovable
files. If the free space you are trying to create contains one, the
operation fails. You'd need to use a third party partitioning utility to get
around this as it needs to be done from outside the operating system. Ones
from Acronis (DiskDirector) and Terabyteunlimited (BootIT NG) are both Vista
compatible.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

 

[andy]

when ever i try to create a new partition (shrinking volume) on my my c
drive (local drive) i get an error that there is not enough disk space
available on the disk to complete this operation. But in fact i have more
than enough space. my hardrive has 366 gigs of space and 296 gigs is left. i
am trying to partition only 5 gigs. Any ideas why i get this error?

heres the exact message:
http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w164/hydraulicsuperman/shrinkingproblem.jpg

You should have moved the Disk Management error box up out of the way
before capturing the screen, so the layout of Disk 0 is visible. Is
the Recovery partition located after the HP partition?

 

[emad senejani]

Here is are two more snapshot:
http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w164/hydraulicsuperman/disk0error.jpg
http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w164/hydraulicsuperman/disk0.jpg

the recovery is after the local disk. I remember that i was able to create
partitions because i once dual booted ubuntu and then deleted it after. I
don't know why it won't let me do it again.

 

[emad senejani]

then whats the point of the disk manager being there. I remember using disk
manager before to create a recovery partition, but i don't know why it wont
work anymore.