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gsd   10-29-2009 at 05:43:45 PM

I'm trying to dual boot Vista 64bit with Ubuntu (linux) but I can't seem to shrink my Vista partition.

When I go to disk management It's not showing any unallocated space on my C drive, despite having around 270GB free...
Also, when I go to shrink the drive it's showing 0MB free space to shrink.

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Any help would be appreciated.

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gsd   10-29-2009 at 06:35:49 PM
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I just tried resizing the partition using GParted and it failed too. I can't seem to resize it!

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fowang   10-30-2009 at 12:13:53 PM
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try using partition magic

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btk1w1   10-30-2009 at 12:30:01 PM
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When you right clicked the drive and chose shrink partition, did it go through the process of querying volume for available shrink space?

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gsd   10-30-2009 at 01:40:42 PM
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Thanks for the replies.

Yes, it did go through the querying process. I eventually tried using GParted and it said there was a problem with the file system and it couldn't be resized.

In the end I formatted the partition and it's all working fine now. I have no idea what caused it.

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