Shrinking partition in Vista

Discussion in 'Software' started by cr.Gena, Jul 23, 2007.

  1. cr.Gena

    cr.Gena Private First Class

    Hi guys now I need your help

    I've bought a new laptop with the Vista OS and there is only one C: partition on it (besides the hidden one). I still don't trust enough the Vista backup tool so i'm going to use True Image for it. Now i want to split my C partition into two parts, the first part will be for system informatiton, the second one - for my data. Then I will be able to image the system partition separately from the data partition.
    Now C: drive is 100GB
    But the problem is Vista doesn't allow to shrink C: lower than down to 70 GB. It says it's because of page file, system restore points, hybernation files, etc that are located in different points of the drive.
    Can I do smth in this situation to free at least 40-50 GB for second partition? Maybe any third-party software which is working under Vista and is able to manage it?
     
  2. augiedoggie

    augiedoggie The Canadian Loon - LocoAugie (R.I.P. 2012)

    You can reduce the size of the restore file as that is set at default to %15 so you could probably reduce that to %5 saving you 10GB. I believe the swap file is set to %12 and you could reduce that as well but I'm not sure at what point your swap file becomes too small to be effective. HTH
     

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