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Hey all,

So I'm trying to make a new partition in order to install Windows 7. I'm currently using Windows Vista Home Premum, 64-bit. I've searched a lot of threads, tried turning of hibernation and the pagefile, but with no luck. As it stands, I can only make a partition at a maximum size of 156MB. I uninstalled a bunch of software (about 15 gigs in size) and then defragged the entire drive, but still no luck.

Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.

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Use partiton magic, or download Hiren's boot, boot from this and use the partiton tools that have inside.

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try partition manager, this works really great. easy to use

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