[Jkt610]

Hi, I am trying to partition my drive to make room for linux. The problem is that when I hit "shrink volume", it tells me that I can only shrink volume by about 8 gb when I have around 50 gb left on the drive. Can anyone tell me how to solve this. I was to partition my drive by at least 20gb for ubuntu that I'm trying to dual boot on my computer. Thanks.

 

[sobeit]

how are you partitioning your drive? try doing a defrag first.

 

[Jkt610]

The way I'm partitioning my drive is by using the built in Vista partitioning method. Start>Right click Computer>Manage>Disk Management>Shrink Volume. I've already tried defraging multiple times but no luck.

 

[sobeit]

Then I really don't know what is going on if you already defrag.

a couple of other options, ubuntu will also partition the drive during the install.
also the newest ubuntu will installl in windows like any other windows program. And you can remove it through add/remove

http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=1570

That is the way I did it.