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Outrage	Posted: Oct 24 2009, 12:57 AM
swing dat hoop Group: Members Posts: 2147 Member No.: 2448 Joined: 5-August 06 Status: (0d)	So I want to dualboot Vista and 7 on my laptop, so I'm attempting to create a new partition for Windows 7. As you see, my hard drive is 297 Gb and there's 152 Gb of space left. So I go to the Disk Management console and try to create a new partition. ...And it tells me I can only free 212 Mb. Why is that? -------------------- my ref also dA

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Posted: Oct 24 2009, 12:59 AM

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Fragmentation. Try defragging your hard drive and freespace with Defraggler.

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QUOTE (Xgoff @ Sep 10 2009 @ 06:11 PM)

did you try hello's engine

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Outrage	Posted: Oct 24 2009, 12:41 PM
swing dat hoop Group: Members Posts: 2147 Member No.: 2448 Joined: 5-August 06 Status: (0d)	Ok, I'll try that. -------------------- my ref also dA

hazmeister	Posted: Oct 24 2009, 03:59 PM
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Posted: Oct 25 2009, 12:45 PM

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QUOTE (hazmeister @ Oct 24 2009, 03:59 PM)

Windows also can't move your page file or hibernate file, so you'll need to disable both of these, and then defrag. Have had this issue myself. Don't forget to re-enable page file afterward!

How do I disable those features?

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Outrage	Posted: Oct 25 2009, 12:56 PM
swing dat hoop Group: Members Posts: 2147 Member No.: 2448 Joined: 5-August 06 Status: (0d)	Ok, I found out how to disable pagefile/hibernate file. I did that. I defragged. Still gives me the same ****. -------------------- my ref also dA

Elixer	Posted: Oct 25 2009, 02:00 PM
Fully Restores Health and Mana Group: Members Posts: 673 Member No.: 6178 Joined: 15-April 09 Status: (0d)	You can't partition drive while it is being used. First: BACK UP STUFF JUST IN CASE Second: Insert the Windows disc. It should have stuff on it for partitioning. I THINK. Also...Why would you want Vista AND 7? Just use 7 lol. This post has been edited by Elixer on Oct 25 2009, 02:01 PM -------------------- I am not interested in ordinary people If there are any aliens, time travelers, espers or sliders, please come with me That is all Blazblue: Main Subs

Char	Posted: Oct 25 2009, 02:16 PM
fad was bad Group: Admins Posts: 2123 Member No.: 2856 Joined: 25-October 06 Status: (0d)	he's trying to shrink it not partition it plus you can partition a drive in use what are you talking about as for op, you might want to try using a gparted livecd to shrink it window's disk management is .. not really great -------------------- aa this broke Make your own \| If a level is breaking the rules, note the ID and PM me. Reference (thanks Frogjester!)

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Posted: Oct 25 2009, 02:19 PM

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QUOTE (Char @ Oct 25 2009, 03:16 PM)

he's trying to shrink it not partition it
plus you can partition a drive in use what are you talking about

as for op, you might want to try using a gparted livecd to shrink it
window's disk management is .. not really great

No, he is trying to partition it so that he can stuff W7 on one partition and Vista on another.
I generally try to avoid partitioning drives in use; higher chance that the partitioning will fail and everything vanishes.

GParted is indeed great. I advise it over using the disc as well; it is just extra work lol.

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Posted: Oct 25 2009, 02:26 PM

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QUOTE (Elixer @ Oct 26 2009, 12:49 AM)

No, he is trying to partition it so that he can stuff W7 on one partition and Vista on another.

yeah i know that
but he's trying to resize the vista partition to make way for 7

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Outrage	Posted: Oct 25 2009, 02:40 PM
swing dat hoop Group: Members Posts: 2147 Member No.: 2448 Joined: 5-August 06 Status: (0d)	I figured it out. I used a third party partitioning tool and everything worked fine. Posting from 7 now :p Thanks guys! -------------------- my ref also dA

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QUOTE (Outrage @ Oct 25 2009, 03:40 PM)

I figured it out. I used a third party partitioning tool and everything worked fine. Posting from 7 now :p Thanks guys!

Awesome! Enjoy 7, it is amazing!

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Char	Posted: Oct 25 2009, 02:59 PM
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Posted: Oct 25 2009, 03:02 PM

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QUOTE (Char @ Oct 25 2009, 02:59 PM)

oh and then get rid of vista when you're done

but I don't want to lose all my files

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Char	Posted: Oct 25 2009, 03:05 PM
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Posted: Oct 26 2009, 07:41 AM

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QUOTE (Outrage @ Oct 25 2009, 05:56 PM)

Ok, I found out how to disable pagefile/hibernate file. I did that. I defragged. Still gives me the same ****.

For reference, disabling the features doesn't always remove hibernate.sys and pagefile.sys from C:\ (you'll need to ask windows to let you see hidden, system and protected files from Folder Options). Its safe to delete these files after these fetaures have been disabled.

Sorry for late post, just replying for benefit of anyone else who searches later.

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