I recently purchased a new PC with 250G HDD, with Vista. Dell formatted 10G
for a recovery partition, and left the remaining ~240Gig for the OS. I have
used the Shrink function to decrease that 240Gig to create a new
partition(s), but the shrink function lets me decrease the size by only
~88gig. Which means I now have my partitions as such (C at ~150gig, (D
at 10Gig and (e at 88gig. I would like to decrease the C: partition even
further, since that's 85% unused, but I do not get the option to decrease
that partition even further.

Is this a limitation of Vista to reserve 100Gig for the OS? Or do I need
to buy 3rd party SW (i.e. Partition Magic, etc.) to decrease that further?

Any help is greatly appreciated. I'm new to Vista...so be gentle.

Hi there,

As far as I know there is no limitation with vista on HDD space (as long as
you give it what it needs plus a healthy few gigs for page file etc)
Check out this site to help with resizing paritions
http://www.winvistaclub.com/t11.html


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I recently purchased a new PC with 250G HDD, with Vista. Dell formatted
10G
for a recovery partition, and left the remaining ~240Gig for the OS. I
have
used the Shrink function to decrease that 240Gig to create a new
partition(s), but the shrink function lets me decrease the size by only
~88gig. Which means I now have my partitions as such (C at ~150gig,
(D
at 10Gig and (e at 88gig. I would like to decrease the C: partition
even
further, since that's 85% unused, but I do not get the option to decrease
that partition even further.

Is this a limitation of Vista to reserve 100Gig for the OS? Or do I need
to buy 3rd party SW (i.e. Partition Magic, etc.) to decrease that further?

Any help is greatly appreciated. I'm new to Vista...so be gentle.

antnym5;692054 Wrote:
I recently purchased a new PC with 250G HDD, with Vista. Dell formatted
10G
for a recovery partition, and left the remaining ~240Gig for the OS. I
have
used the Shrink function to decrease that 240Gig to create a new
partition(s), but the shrink function lets me decrease the size by only
~88gig. Which means I now have my partitions as such (C at ~150gig,
(D
at 10Gig and (e at 88gig. I would like to decrease the C: partition
even
further, since that's 85% unused, but I do not get the option to
decrease
that partition even further.

Is this a limitation of Vista to reserve 100Gig for the OS? Or do I
need
to buy 3rd party SW (i.e. Partition Magic, etc.) to decrease that
further?

Any help is greatly appreciated. I'm new to Vista...so be gentle.
Hello antnym5,
follow the link below. It should help.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/95...partition.html


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You may find that there is not enough free space on a certain partition.
For example, you want to enlarge C: drive, which usually is Windows
system drive. EASEUS Partition Manager Personal lets you free enlarge or
reduce a partition in Windows 2000/XP/2003 Server(Only Server Edition)
without destroying data easily.

for
mohttp://www.partition-tool.com/easeus...-partition.htm


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You may find that there is not enough free space on a certain partition.
For example, you want to enlarge C: drive, which usually is Windows
system drive. EASEUS Partition Manager Personal lets you free enlarge or
reduce a partition in Windows 2000/XP/2003 Server(Only Server Edition)
without destroying data easily.
for

mohttp://www.partition-tool.com/easeus...-partition.htm


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free partittion magic alternative is a good choice, it helps me 'resize
and manage partitions' (http://tinyurl.com/5pyo3j) very well.


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free partittion magic alternative is a good choice, it helps me 'resize
and manage partitions' (http://tinyurl.com/5pyo3j) very well.


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