mactovista wrote:


Help!

Trying to shrink or partition hard drive on Vista HP to load XP to run
some programs. Computer only 2 mos. old has 500 gig hard drive but will
only allow me 10 gig partition. Message says "Size of available shrink
space can be restricted if snapshots or page files are enabled on the
volume"

Been on chat with hp all morning no help. Tried defragmenting, chkdsk,
etc still limited to 10 gig.

Any answers?

If you are trying to use Vista's Drive Management, it will only allow
you to shrink to a point where certain files (don't remember which
ones) are, and no further.

To go beyond that, you will need a third-party partition manager.

A new one on the market - a freebie - is getting good reviews.

http://shareware.pcmag.com/product.p...SiteID%5Dpcmag