Unable to shrink my C: drive.

[HotActionYiffFur]

Running Vista Home Premium (32) BIT

I'm trying to partition my C: drive to dual boot a secondary operating system, but the option to shrink the drive isn't highlighted.

I can do it fine to my recovery drive, or my D: in this case, but that's only about 8Gb in size and I would rather it be taken from my C:.

I'm trying to slice off a good 10Gb, or about 10,000 Mb, give or take.

I know the answer is obvious, but this is getting annoying.

[SleepyFox]

Install Ubuntu or Linux, it has a partitioning tool with it

[SleepyFox]

Right, and back up your data, I haven't tried it myself so I can't say how reliable it is.

You can just choose how much of the Windows partition you want to make a new one, I think

[WingCommand]

If it lasts more than 4 hours, you should go see your doctor.

Or stop looking at pictures of men.

[HotActionYiffFur]

At 6/9/08 11:07 PM, SleepyFox wrote: Right, and back up your data, I haven't tried it myself so I can't say how reliable it is.

You can just choose how much of the Windows partition you want to make a new one, I think

That's the gist of it I've gotten while around the internet trying to find the answer. Any step by step instructions I've been following never answer why I can't do this final step.

I was going to get a Linux based OS but decided to go for XP when I realized we have a disk for it here.

[BigFuzzyKitten]

burn a gparted live cd

[TheGreat3stNameEver]

try to defragment your disk see if that helps any.

[SleepyFox]

At 6/9/08 11:39 PM, BigFuzzyKitten wrote: burn a gparted live cd

Oh god no, I tried booting that up and my eyes popped out of my head because it made no sense to me

[HotActionYiffFur]

At 6/9/08 11:44 PM, TheGreat3stNameEver wrote: try to defragment your disk see if that helps any.

And after 4 hours I found it to have done nothing of use.

Tried it, didn't help much. I just made a topic on the Vista forums with really no relevance at all besides a posted link to here, which doesn't answer my question at all.

[Tyrant12]

Set your hard drive on fire, I'm sure that'll clear up a bit of space.

[BigFuzzyKitten]

At 6/9/08 11:46 PM, SleepyFox wrote:

At 6/9/08 11:39 PM, BigFuzzyKitten wrote: burn a gparted live cd

Oh god no, I tried booting that up and my eyes popped out of my head because it made no sense to me

Other ones are like that, but gparted live has a gui and shit. You just got to press enter whenever it asks a question when starting up