Re: Help! HDD Partitioning Inside Vista x64

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Richard Urban;1038137 Wrote:
Go to Computer | Properties | Advanced System Settings | System
rotection - turn off System Restore. Then reboot. Now run a manual
defrag
on the drive you want to shrink. Then try the shrink process again.

If still no joy you will need to perform a boot time defrag that is
offered
by some 3rd party defrag programs, such as PerfectDisk or DisKeeper.

I do all of my partition work by booting from a CD that contains
Acronis
Disk Director Suite. By doing this I am not encumbered by any locked
files/folders because none are in use (the operating system is non in
use at
that point).

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Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience


"NYCGirl" <guest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:d658d983c048a9427b9dff7e18112d1c@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > >

My issue is that I cannot make a large enough partition from inside
Vista x64.

I have two 1TB HDDs in mirroring, and there's only 1 primary
partition
right now that spans across the entire 1TB. 350GB of the 1TB are
occupied by the OS and documents / files.

My objective is to split this 1TB into two partitions for dual boot
with Win7 RC. And for that I need a 2nd primary partition on this
drive
(at least 20GB or so).

I first tried the standard way of creating a new partition. From Disk
Management, I right clicked on the C drive and Shrink Volume. Then,
it
says I can only shrink by 1GB!!! Since I cannot be repeating that 20
or
more times, I unsuccessfully gave diskpart.exe a shot.

Can anybody help me with this?

On the Shrink C disk from Disk Management, it sasy:

Size of available shrink space can be restricted if snapshots or
pagefiles are enabled on the volume.

Could this be the reason? And if so, how can I turn them off?

Thank you!


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NYCGirl > >

Thank you for your reply. I suspect that I may well have to do the
special defrag. I turned off System Restore, Pagefile etc. but I cannot
still shrink enough.

I read about Acronis Disk Director Suite, however, I hardly have to
make partitions, so, it's probably not smart for me to invest 50 dollars
on the soft..

I will try PerfectDisk or DisKeeper to move the MBR etc. Thank you for
the suggestions! :)


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NYCGirl
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