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603054 2007-10-19 07:54:00 im curious, just to try it out I have just tried to shrink my main ntfs partition using the vista disk tool under computer management, it is about 50% free space (about 40gb) however vista wont let me shrink it at all (available shrink space = 0b). Any ideas what might be causing this - I tried moving all the 'unmoveable files' ie the page file to another partition, and deleting the hibernation file however this didn't make a difference.

Given that vista won't work I will use gparted instead as I had initially planned but i was curious as to why vista refuses to shrink it.
soupaman (12942)
603055 2007-10-20 04:36:00 Couple of reasons - one being the unmovable files.

What ever you do BE CAREFUL - as if it screws something you may lose data, or make the system unbootable.

Here is a couple of articles on how to do it. Here (www.howtogeek.com) and Here (vistarewired.com).
wainuitech (129)
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