Disk Partioning

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Hi Everybody,
I wanted to partition my 750 GByte disk to give Windows and Programs
together about 300 GBytes and I wanted a separate partition for data storage
to be about 400 GBytes. However, I can not "shrink" the OS portion below
460 GBytes. I have removed the un-movable Page File.
Is there some way to discover who has put an un-movable file at 460
GBytes and is there some way to move it out of the way.
Phil
 
Windows (not the drive) takes a dump and you can reload Windows with all
your data still intact. I would still have 'real' backups of any important
data, but this is still much better then nothing :)

Bob said:
Why? If your partitions are on the same "physical" drive I don't see the
advantage over creating separate folders.

The issue of not being able to "shrink" is addressed here:
Cannot shrink volume in Vista for Ubuntu install on separate partition
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=640498
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Philip K said:
Hi Everybody,
I wanted to partition my 750 GByte disk to give Windows and Programs
together about 300 GBytes and I wanted a separate partition for data
storage to be about 400 GBytes. However, I can not "shrink" the OS
portion below 460 GBytes. I have removed the un-movable Page File.
Is there some way to discover who has put an un-movable file at 460
GBytes and is there some way to move it out of the way.
Phil
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Philip K said:
Hi Everybody,
I wanted to partition my 750 GByte disk to give Windows and Programs
together about 300 GBytes and I wanted a separate partition for data storage
to be about 400 GBytes. However, I can not "shrink" the OS portion below
460 GBytes. I have removed the un-movable Page File.
Is there some way to discover who has put an un-movable file at 460
GBytes and is there some way to move it out of the way.
Phil
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How are you trying to shrink it?
Are you using Vista disk management or a third party app?If your using MS stuff try a third party application like from Acronis or
Nortons partition magic or whatever they call it now.

They do a much better job and can shrink a partition that Microsoft's app
can't
 
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