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 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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Regards,

Richard Urban MVP
Microsoft Windows Shell/User


"Elai" wrote in message
...
I have a related issue:

I am trying to shrink my C: partition (from 55GB to 30GB) in order to
create
a new partition. The message says there is 0 available space. I have
disabled
system restore, and moved the pagefile to a different partition, but no
effect.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!
E-

"Andy Sweet [MSFT]" wrote:

You can also use Computer Management MMC in Vista to shrink partitions
and
create unallocated disk space. From that you can create new partitions.

Check out the help topic "Can I repartition my hard disk?" in Help and
Support, or online at
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Win...4f4cc1033.mspx

Please let us know if that resolves your issue, thanks.

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Andy Sweet
Windows User Assistance team
Microsoft Corporation




"Michal Kawecki" wrote in message
...
So, use Vista tools. Boot to install DVD, select Repair, Command
Prompt,
then run diskpart.exe. You can there create, format, shrink and expand
partitions (with some restrictions, of course, because it's simple tool
without GUI).
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M. [Windows - Shell/User MVP]
/before private reply change px with pl in my e-mail address/

"cutie_pyie" wrote in message
...
Hi all,

I have a Toshiba A135-S4427 Notebook that came preinstalled with Vista
Home
Premium.
I want to use Partition Magic ver-8 to repartition the HDD into 3
total
partitions,
in other words - I want to creat 2 additional partitions.

I read on another board the following:
...Vista has a different NTFS than XP. It is a known issue that
formatting a
drive/partition with Vista installed with a 3rd-party partitioning
application will be sure to create problems, again due to the
different
NTFS
format, since there are currently no compatible partitioning
applications
out
that work with Vista.

If I can get Partition Magic 8 to JUST create the partitions but NOT
format
them, will Vista's disk management format them correctly to the right
NTFS
for Vista?

Thanks a bunch.
Cin