Shrink limitation

I have a new Vista premier edition. The disk is 160GByte but the occupied
size is about 15Gbyte. Snapshots is activated. I tried to shrink but it the
maximum available size is around 60Gbyte, leaving the minimum available on
around 100Gbyte.
What is the reason that I can't shrink the C drive bellow 100Gbyte?
Is there some workaround?

Regards
Rami

Rami;631635 Wrote:
> I have a new Vista premier edition. The disk is 160GByte but the
> occupied
> size is about 15Gbyte. Snapshots is activated. I tried to shrink but it
> the
> maximum available size is around 60Gbyte, leaving the minimum available
> on
> around 100Gbyte.
> What is the reason that I can't shrink the C drive bellow 100Gbyte?
> Is there some workaround?
>
> Regards
> Rami

Try defragging the drive first, or use a third-party utility like
Partition Magic to shrink the partition.

The reason why you can't shrink the parition any smaller is because
Vista determines the size that can be shrinked from the amount of fre
space available after the lasted used storage "cluster". When Vista
shrinks a partition, it does not move used clusters.


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"Rami" wrote:

> I have a new Vista premier edition. The disk is 160GByte but the occupied
> size is about 15Gbyte. Snapshots is activated. I tried to shrink but it the
> maximum available size is around 60Gbyte, leaving the minimum available on
> around 100Gbyte.
> What is the reason that I can't shrink the C drive bellow 100Gbyte?
> Is there some workaround?
>
> Regards
> Rami
>
>
>

Partition magic is not compatible with Vista


Paragon Partition manager is and also a free alternative is a linux
bootable cd called
parted magic


"dzomlija" <> wrote in message
news:...
>
> Rami;631635 Wrote:
>> I have a new Vista premier edition. The disk is 160GByte but the
>> occupied
>> size is about 15Gbyte. Snapshots is activated. I tried to shrink but it
>> the
>> maximum available size is around 60Gbyte, leaving the minimum available
>> on
>> around 100Gbyte.
>> What is the reason that I can't shrink the C drive bellow 100Gbyte?
>> Is there some workaround?
>>
>> Regards
>> Rami
>
> Try defragging the drive first, or use a third-party utility like
> Partition Magic to shrink the partition.
>
> The reason why you can't shrink the parition any smaller is because
> Vista determines the size that can be shrinked from the amount of fre
> space available after the lasted used storage "cluster". When Vista
> shrinks a partition, it does not move used clusters.
>
>
> --
> dzomlija
>
> _____________________
> Peter Alexander Dzomlija
> -Do you hear, huh? The Alpha and The Omega? Death and Rebirth? And as
> you die, so shall I be Reborn...-
>
> -Download MP3 Media Properties Explorer: --http://www.phx.co.za-
>
> - ASUS A8N32-SLI-Deluxe
> - AMD Athlon 64 Dual-Core 4800+
> - 4GB DDR400
> - 128MB ASUS nVidia 6600
> - Thermaltake Tai-Chi Chassis
> - 1207GB Formatted Storage
> - Vista Ultimate x64
> - CodeGear Delphi 2007See my rig at:
> http://s229.photobucket.com/albums/e...zomlija/Venus/

Hi Rami,

It happens because there is a locked, immovable file somewhere near that
point in the drive. Window's drive tool is not able to get past this. You
would need to use a third party tool like Acronis' Disk Director or BootIT
NG from terabyteunlimited to get around this.

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Best of Luck,

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

"Rami" <> wrote in message
news:OZc$...
>I have a new Vista premier edition. The disk is 160GByte but the occupied
> size is about 15Gbyte. Snapshots is activated. I tried to shrink but it
> the
> maximum available size is around 60Gbyte, leaving the minimum available on
> around 100Gbyte.
> What is the reason that I can't shrink the C drive bellow 100Gbyte?
> Is there some workaround?
>
> Regards
> Rami
>
>

Rami wrote:

> I have a new Vista premier edition. The disk is 160GByte but the occupied
> size is about 15Gbyte. Snapshots is activated. I tried to shrink but it the
> maximum available size is around 60Gbyte, leaving the minimum available on
> around 100Gbyte.
> What is the reason that I can't shrink the C drive bellow 100Gbyte?
> Is there some workaround?

Try to do that using software that works without control. I suggest to
use 30-day trial version of BootIt - http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/

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Regards
Arkadiusz 'Black Fox' Artyszuk

If you are a techie, you can sometimes delete the pagefile and hiberfil and
do the shrink from WinRE and get a better shrink.

"Rami" <> wrote in message
news:OZc$...
>I have a new Vista premier edition. The disk is 160GByte but the occupied
> size is about 15Gbyte. Snapshots is activated. I tried to shrink but it
> the
> maximum available size is around 60Gbyte, leaving the minimum available on
> around 100Gbyte.
> What is the reason that I can't shrink the C drive bellow 100Gbyte?
> Is there some workaround?
>
> Regards
> Rami
>
>

"John Barnes" wrote:

> If you are a techie, you can sometimes delete the pagefile and hiberfil and
> do the shrink from WinRE and get a better shrink.
>
> "Rami" <> wrote in message
> news:OZc$...
> >I have a new Vista premier edition. The disk is 160GByte but the occupied
> > size is about 15Gbyte. Snapshots is activated. I tried to shrink but it
> > the
> > maximum available size is around 60Gbyte, leaving the minimum available on
> > around 100Gbyte.
> > What is the reason that I can't shrink the C drive bellow 100Gbyte?
> > Is there some workaround?
> >
> > Regards
> > Rami
> >
> >
>
>

hmm. But deleting or moving this files can make the system instable. is that
true??