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    Need help creating new partition on Vaio Z

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by jim_0068, Jan 12, 2009.

  1. jim_0068

    jim_0068 Notebook Consultant

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    So i want to create a partition on my 320gb vaio z hard drive so i can install windows 7 beta and dual boot vista and windows 7.

    However i am running into a problem; when i try to partition using the built in partition tool once vista is done querying for available shrink space vista is telling me that i can only shrink 9.9gb out of my available 296gb of space left.

    Now i ran a defrag, deleted old system restores and shadown copies and the available size hasn't changed.

    Not sure what to do, help?

    Thanks

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    If this should be moved go ahead, but i figured i'd post here first in case this is some kind of weird "sony issue."
     
    jim_0068, Jan 12, 2009
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    The problem is that there are MFT entries near the end of the disk, you need to use a defrag tool that can defrag the MFT.

    I recently had the same problem getting space for an XP partition a the end of my drive on a Vaio FW.

    I used PerfectDisk 2008 (14day fully functional trial HERE) to do a 'boot time' defrag which cleared the space at the end of the drive so that I was able to make a 20GB partition for XP using the Vista 'Shrink'.
     
    t-bon3, Jan 13, 2009
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    jim_0068 Notebook Consultant

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    Ok, so before you responded i did what you suggested using various internet searches and was able to free up a lot of space on my HD. However at that point the vista partition utility wasn't allowing me to shrink the new available data; was giving me a logical disk error: access denied.

    So i tried running another defrag and now my "available" space to shrink is 302mb!! ?! Am i using perfectdisk incorrectly? This is getting rather annoying for such a simple task.

    Also, it never seems like my HD fully defrags; it goes and goes and goes and when i come back it has finished but way ahead of the estimated time. It will be going at like 40-60% defragged and then i'll come back and it's magically done.

    Any more help would be greatly appreciated
     
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    jim_0068, Jan 13, 2009
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