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  • Tuesday, December 23, 2008 5:45 PMmmconnect Users MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
     
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    Thanks for providing us with this forum, GREAT IDEA!!!

    I bought a Sony laptop last week and wish to partition the Vista (C) drive as I do a lot of Audio/Video High Definition work. I have researched many forums and blogs using your "shrink" and built in partition tool, but there seems to be a reoccuring theme for many people. The system and feature is very limited and most people cannot utilize the overall disk space they have available.

    For example; I have 287GB of free disk space, when I go to shrink the volume it tells me the maximum amount I can shrink is 6044MB (6GB). I even tried disabling snapshots and pagefiles but still get 6044MB as the maximum size to shrink. As I stated the laptop is brand new and I'm at a loss here.

    Any ideas?

    Please help me...thanks in advance.

    Mario
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  • Tuesday, December 23, 2008 8:06 PMMark L. FergusonMVP, ModeratorUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
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     Yes, I do recommend you pursue a third party solution. What you are trying
    to do with the built-in partitioning tool is not workable.
    Mark L. Ferguson MS-MVP
     

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  • Tuesday, December 23, 2008 6:28 PMMark L. FergusonMVP, ModeratorUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
     
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    This is probably a function of how the disk was partitioned and setup by the maker of the system. Many OEM system makers will establish a recovery partition as the first partition physically on the drive. Then they create the "C:" partition second, making their first partition appear to be "D:" in most cases. This prevents the built in repartitioniong software from resizing C:. If D: was removed (not recomended, and would void your warrantee and support), you would probably find more than 6 megs to play with.

    One aspect that will be apparent in a system like this is the confusion in drive letters between C: and D: if you open the Windows RE 'recovery' screen Command Prompt.
    Mark L. Ferguson MS-MVP
     
  • Tuesday, December 23, 2008 7:58 PMmmconnect Users MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
     
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    Thanks for the quick response. 

        There is a 10.92 GB Healthy (EISA Configuration) partition next to the Vista (C) 287GB free drive I explained earlier. I believe this is what you are talking about and this indicates it is on the same drive (0). I do not have a (D) drive. I only have Disk 0 (main drive), 1 removable (E), 2 removable (D), and a CD-ROM.  It still doesn't explain why the system doesn't recognize the 287GB as being free.

    I certainly do not want to void the warranty, do you have any ideas on how I can resolve? Should I pursue a 3rd party software at this point?

    Can you help with a solution?
     
  • Tuesday, December 23, 2008 8:06 PMMark L. FergusonMVP, ModeratorUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
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     Yes, I do recommend you pursue a third party solution. What you are trying
    to do with the built-in partitioning tool is not workable.
    Mark L. Ferguson MS-MVP