"Shrink Volume" in Vista

.Griff. · 29 May 2008 at 16:16

I'm trying to shrink my only partition in order to create some unallocated space yet "Shrink Volume" insists there's only 108MB of "shrinkable space" yet the disk/partition has at least 128GB of free space.

Any tips?

Jumping · 29 May 2008 at 16:31

U can use a 3rd party ap like Partition Magic or Acronis Disk Director. There is also a free linux partition program that I forgot the name of now but when I tried it worked pretty good.

I do like Acronis Disk Director tho which is very easy to use.

.Griff. · 29 May 2008 at 18:13

Cheers for the suggestions. I'll give them a try tonight.

HarryPainful · 29 May 2008 at 19:30

Are you using disk management to do it?

try diskpart from a command line instead.

SimonC · 29 May 2008 at 19:45

Yeah from what I've read you need to do a defrag before shrinking the partition.