Vista Home - Unable to shrink drive C

I have a laptop with Vista Home Premium. The installation has allocated all
160GB to drive C: and I want to shrink this to 60 GB and create drive D: of
around 100GB. Unfortunately I have been unable to shrink drive C: as there
are system files right at the top end (and about 140GB free beneath them).
Defrag and PerfectDisk don't seem to relocate those system files down the
drive.
Any ideas as to how I can shrink the drive?
Richard

Hi Richard,

Use a third party partitioning utility like BootIT NG
(terabyteunlimited.com) or Acronis' Disk Director. Defragging won't always
move otherwise immovable files.

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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

"ferrymanr" <> wrote in message
news:...
>I have a laptop with Vista Home Premium. The installation has allocated
>all 160GB to drive C: and I want to shrink this to 60 GB and create drive
>D: of around 100GB. Unfortunately I have been unable to shrink drive C: as
>there are system files right at the top end (and about 140GB free beneath
>them). Defrag and PerfectDisk don't seem to relocate those system files
>down the drive.
> Any ideas as to how I can shrink the drive?
> Richard

Thanks a lot. The trial version of Acronis Disk Director did a splendid
job.
Richard
"Rick Rogers" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Hi Richard,
>
> Use a third party partitioning utility like BootIT NG
> (terabyteunlimited.com) or Acronis' Disk Director. Defragging won't always
> move otherwise immovable files.
>
> --
> 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
>
> "ferrymanr" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>>I have a laptop with Vista Home Premium. The installation has allocated
>>all 160GB to drive C: and I want to shrink this to 60 GB and create drive
>>D: of around 100GB. Unfortunately I have been unable to shrink drive C:
>>as there are system files right at the top end (and about 140GB free
>>beneath them). Defrag and PerfectDisk don't seem to relocate those system
>>files down the drive.
>> Any ideas as to how I can shrink the drive?
>> Richard
>