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Smiller6620 · 07-09-2009, 05:58 PM

I am trying to set up a new partition on my harddrive and when using the Disk Management tool in Vista it tells me I have 188,540 MB available to shrink my drive with. I am only trying to shrink it by 50GB as to create a new partition. However whenever i attempt to shrink the drive by 50 GB it will not let me. I get an error message that tells me Im unable to shrink it. Does anyone have any clues as to what I can do to solve this problem. Ive been reading all over in forums and apparantly 3rd party programs generally fail also.

07-09-2009, 05:58 PM	#1 (permalink)
Smiller6620 Registered User Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 4 OS: Vista Home Premium Service Pack 2	Unable to Shrink C Drive I am trying to set up a new partition on my harddrive and when using the Disk Management tool in Vista it tells me I have 188,540 MB available to shrink my drive with. I am only trying to shrink it by 50GB as to create a new partition. However whenever i attempt to shrink the drive by 50 GB it will not let me. I get an error message that tells me Im unable to shrink it. Does anyone have any clues as to what I can do to solve this problem. Ive been reading all over in forums and apparantly 3rd party programs generally fail also.