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ebhendra   10-29-2009 at 05:09:20 PM


Hi, I purchased a DELL Studio 1557 LAPTOP with Windows Vista Home Premium 64 bit pre-installed.DDR3 4GB Ram. And 500GB Sata hdd. The basic partition given is "C" i.e. Windows drive. I want to partition it to 50,50,300 gbs respectively. but I was only able to shrink 239.58 GB as un allocated space. and rest 211 gb on the c drive is not being able to shrink and its showing a message " Size of available shrink space is restricted is snapshots or pagefiels are enabled on this volume."
I removed the pagefile on C and tried, but no use. Is there any solution to partition the rest of the space on C. I also tried paragon partition manager,that still caused more problems.

Regards,
A.R.

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fowang   10-30-2009 at 11:58:30 AM

What about the other 100gb? but anyway try partition magic

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pat mcgroin   10-30-2009 at 03:22:28 PM

try to turn down the amount of space that system restore can use.
I think It may be trying to preserve that space.
You may also possibly have to trun it off in order to do this and then turn it back on.


Message edited by pat mcgroin on 10-30-2009 at 03:23:25 PM
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ebhendra   10-30-2009 at 08:23:21 PM

yes. I turned off the system restore and also disabled the volume shadowing service.but still couldn't find the apt solution.

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