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    Sony's Vaio wont allow partitions?

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by ardoramor, Aug 30, 2007.

  1. ardoramor

    ardoramor Newbie

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    Hello,

    I have recently bought Sony Vaio FZ190, 160 Gb HD. I tried to partition it with Vista's manager. However, it only allowed me to shrink it by 10Gb and no more. Is that because of Sony? Or something that Vista does (maybe memory reserves)? Anyone have any ideas how to fix it?

    Thank you so much!
     
    ardoramor, Aug 30, 2007
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  2. scottyinco

    scottyinco Notebook Evangelist

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    it's vista. use a program like Acronis Disk Director Suite.
     
    scottyinco, Aug 30, 2007
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  3. lyrebird

    lyrebird Notebook Geek

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    my guess is that some of your files (could be the tmp file of OS) go all the way to almost end of your harddrive sector. some software refuse to relocate them and simply report the maximum consecutive region from the last section of your drive.

    try Acronis Disk Director Suite, i used that and it worked.
     
    lyrebird, Aug 30, 2007
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