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    vista disk management's problem...

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by lkjhhjkl, Mar 8, 2007.

  1. lkjhhjkl

    lkjhhjkl Notebook Enthusiast

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    I have a 80gb HD, wanna divide it into two 40gb partitions....but.....

    disk management's shrink action only allows me to shrink 6.58gb.....

    (Now I have 80gb for c:, just one partition, 60+gb is free.......)


    help....plz....
     
    lkjhhjkl, Mar 8, 2007
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    mujtaba ZzzZzz Super Moderator

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    You have to defrag it (there are bits of data on the end of the partition so the manager cannot shrink it further).Read the guide in my sig.
     
    mujtaba, Mar 8, 2007
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    lkjhhjkl Notebook Enthusiast

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    Thx.

    I used vista's built in defragment tool and even diable the virtual memory/pagefiles......yet....still no improvement... ..

    any idea?

    Thanks

     
    lkjhhjkl, Mar 8, 2007
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    I used defrag.exe c: -w at command line.
    shows:
    volume size = 67.95gb
    free space = 60.45gb
    largest free space extent = 43.89gb
    percent file fragmentation = 0%

    But I still can just shrink only 6gb from c:!!!!!
     
    lkjhhjkl, Mar 9, 2007
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