Shrink limitation

[Rami]

I have a new Vista premier edition. The disk is 160GByte but the occupied
size is about 15Gbyte. Snapshots is activated. I tried to shrink but it the
maximum available size is around 60Gbyte, leaving the minimum available on
around 100Gbyte.
What is the reason that I can't shrink the C drive bellow 100Gbyte?
Is there some workaround?

Regards
Rami

 

[Mick Murphy]

You are going to need ALL that 100Gigs.

 

[On the Bridge!]

Partition magic is not compatible with Vista


Paragon Partition manager is and also a free alternative is a linux
bootable cd called
parted magic

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi Rami,

It happens because there is a locked, immovable file somewhere near that
point in the drive. Window's drive tool is not able to get past this. You
would need to use a third party tool like Acronis' Disk Director or BootIT
NG from terabyteunlimited to get around this.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

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

 

[Arkadiusz 'Black Fox' Artyszuk]

I have a new Vista premier edition. The disk is 160GByte but the occupied
size is about 15Gbyte. Snapshots is activated. I tried to shrink but it the
maximum available size is around 60Gbyte, leaving the minimum available on
around 100Gbyte.
What is the reason that I can't shrink the C drive bellow 100Gbyte?
Is there some workaround?

Try to do that using software that works without control. I suggest to
use 30-day trial version of BootIt - http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/

 

[John Barnes]

If you are a techie, you can sometimes delete the pagefile and hiberfil and
do the shrink from WinRE and get a better shrink.

 

[Rafal Grasman]

If you are a techie, you can sometimes delete the pagefile and hiberfil and
do the shrink from WinRE and get a better shrink.

hmm. But deleting or moving this files can make the system instable. is that
true??