Increase Shrink Size for Vista Disk Management
By Josh | October 20, 2007
Vista Disk Management can be a nice feature, but sometimes it won’t let you resize a partition even though you have plenty of space. I wasn’t able to resize my partition to anything larger than 596 MB even though I had over 70 GB free. I defragmented my Windows drive, ran chkdsk /f multiple times and nothing worked.
I finally found a solution to my problem. You can follow the steps here if, but the one thing that really worked for me was to use the trial version of PerfectDisk. It will defragment your system files so that they aren’t in the way of partitioning your hard drive. After I used that, the shrink size increased to where it should be. Before doing this I thought I’d end up having to reformat my hard drive to be able to partition it.
I’m about to install Linux on its own partition for the first time, so I didn’t want to mess up Vista. In fact I’m probably going to start the installation after writing this post. Hope this helps anybody who has trouble with resizing their partitions in Vista.
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