Shrinking a drive

[RonBes]

I have a 250GB drive that I partitioned into a C and D drive. All I have
on the C drive are Windows Vista and its ancillary files i.e. Program Files
etal and my data files on D

The properties show that Windows and its files are only taking 56GB of
the C drive.

Unfortunately I cannot seem to shrink the drive to and less than
166.33GB so I am wasting 110+GB of the C drive. I would like to allocate
more to drive D but cannot. I tried to shrink it without a swap file and
that didn't help.

Does anyone have a solution?

 

[Rock]

I have a 250GB drive that I partitioned into a C and D drive. All I
have on the C drive are Windows Vista and its ancillary files i.e. Program
Files etal and my data files on D

The properties show that Windows and its files are only taking 56GB of
the C drive.

Unfortunately I cannot seem to shrink the drive to and less than
166.33GB so I am wasting 110+GB of the C drive. I would like to allocate
more to drive D but cannot. I tried to shrink it without a swap file and
that didn't help.

Shrink in Vista doesn't always give what you would look do to the location
of certain files on the partition you are trying to shrink. You can use
other programs do manipulate partitions. Acronis Disk Director Suite
version 10 works fine. And I believe BootIt NG from Terabyte Unlimited will
do this.

 

[Richard Urban]

The built-in shrink utility will be able to decrease the partition size till
it bumps against the first unmovable/locked system file.

If you want to decrease the partition further you will need a 3rd party Disk
Management tool. I use Acronis Disk Director suite. The latest posted
version (10.0 build 4940) is 100% Vista compatible. After installing the
program, create the
emergency CD. Reboot the computer and boot up with this CD. Do your
partition work from there. You will not be hampered with locked files.

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[Jonathan M. \TacticalSniper\ Boyko]

Program like Partition Magic would work. The problem with Vista is that it
can shrink the last partition and leave unallocated space. Meaning, if you
have, for example, C, D and E, it will be able to shrink E but none of the
others.

 

[ray]

I have a 250GB drive that I partitioned into a C and D drive. All I have
on the C drive are Windows Vista and its ancillary files i.e. Program Files
etal and my data files on D

The properties show that Windows and its files are only taking 56GB of
the C drive.

Unfortunately I cannot seem to shrink the drive to and less than
166.33GB so I am wasting 110+GB of the C drive. I would like to allocate
more to drive D but cannot. I tried to shrink it without a swap file and
that didn't help.

Does anyone have a solution?

Suggest you try the Gparted Live CD.

 

[Rock]

Program like Partition Magic would work. The problem with Vista is that it
can shrink the last partition and leave unallocated space. Meaning, if you
have, for example, C, D and E, it will be able to shrink E but none of the
others.

Partition Magic is not a good choice. Vista has problems with partitions
created by it. Acronis Disk Director Suite version 10 or BootIt NG are
Vista compatible.

 

[Jonathan M. \TacticalSniper\ Boyko]

Oh, didn't know that. Don't know about the second one, but Acronis one is
good as well, that's true.

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