damn toshiba please help

Hello, i need help with partitioning my drive first here's the specs
toshiba satellite LG355D vista home premium 350 gig HDD w/100.3 gigs
free...
I am wanting to install linux mint 8 but when i try to shrink, all it
alots me is 49Mb unallocated space which is no where near enough...
soo I am stuck, I am wanting to allocate at least 10GB...... please
help!! this is the only computer i have ever ran into this with

thanks


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lordfucus01

Hi,

You have a locked file somewhere near the end of the volume. When Windows'
disk manager encounters this, it halts the shrink process. You have a few
options:

a) Use a defrag program that can move this file (the defrag utility in
Windows will not do this), then retry resizing it.

b) Use a third party program that runs from outside of Windows to resize the
partition, usually done from a bootable disk.

c) Use Linux' setup to carve out partition space. Most of their current
install routines are capable of doing this without damaging the Windows
installation.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"lordfucus01" <> wrote in message
news:...
>
> Hello, i need help with partitioning my drive first here's the specs
> toshiba satellite LG355D vista home premium 350 gig HDD w/100.3 gigs
> free...
> I am wanting to install linux mint 8 but when i try to shrink, all it
> alots me is 49Mb unallocated space which is no where near enough...
> soo I am stuck, I am wanting to allocate at least 10GB...... please
> help!! this is the only computer i have ever ran into this with
>
> thanks
>
>
> --
> lordfucus01