Chances are you’ll discover that the size of available shrink space
can be much less than you would see if you were to look at the amount
of free space displayed in Computer. The reason for this discrepancy
is that the size of the available space can be restricted by the
amount of space currently allocated to and the location of page,
restore, shadow copy, and hibernation files. The location of the files
plays a big part - these files are marked as unmovable and the Disk
Management console tool is unable to relocate them.
If these unmovable files are located in the middle of the free space
on the disk, only the amount of free space on the other side of the
files will actually be available to the new partition.
The Disk Management Help file briefly mentions that you may be able to
work around this scenario by moving the page file to another to
another disk and deleting the show copies. However, after disabling
the page file, disabling hibernation, disabling the System Restore,
using Disk Cleanup to delete System Restore and Shadow Copy files, and
defragging the hard disk, I was still unable to get more available
space for the second partition.
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So much of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to work.
Steve wrote:
>>> How much space should be allocated to C drive for the Vista OS?
>
> Just received the E520, shows 10G in D (recovery) and 223G in C.
>
> Disk Management > Shrink C:
>
> 228G: Total size before shrink
>
> 112G: Size of available shrink space
>
> Guess this means the C drive is using 116G? No programs loaded, not
> sure what would account for this, maybe some sorta swap file?
>
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Re: Vista - partition the hard drive? 
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