Comments on: Working Around Windows Vista’s "Shrink Volume" Inadequacy Problems

By: drmtiede

drmtiede — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 14:36:38 +0000

Cool: tried everything before, vista shrink, partition manager 9, gnuparted, nothing worked.

Once I understood that the problem was the bunch of files at the end of the partition it was easy. Started Defraggler: defrag free space – and the obstacle was removed. Shrink worked fine afterwords.

Thank You all!!!!

By: Sridhar

Sridhar — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:15:37 +0000

Paragon Partition Manager is the best tool to partition your hard drive with Vista installed on Primary Partition.

By: perspectoff

perspectoff — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:45:47 +0000

PerfectDisk worked for me, retrieving about 50% of the partition (75 of 150 Gb).

However, it is very important to reset the PerfectDisk settings back to “off”, to disable bootup defrags after you are finished, and to completely uninstall PerfectDisk before the trial period ends. Otherwise it can act as a virus, trying to continually function with disabled modules. This drove me crazy with the PD10 version. At 31 days, my computer endlessly tried (unsuccessfully) to do boot-up defrags — it took me a long time to figure out it was PD10.

By: Sunil

Sunil — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:33:24 +0000

Great tip mate, had to use PerfectDisk though!
Now my Ubuntu can install more updates. Thanks a ton.

By: Leishtek

Leishtek — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:35:56 +0000

hi, please do NOT use Partition Magic. It cannot cope with Vista & can really screw up your system. Google on (”partition magic” vista incompatible) to find the truth for yourself.

By: Calvin

Calvin — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:53:31 +0000

Gparted successfully shrinks NTFS boot partitions now without stopping them from boot again. After using these instructions for a while, I decided to take the easy way out. I got booted Ubuntu from a cd, shrunk the partition. I then decided to try to boot from the shrunk vista partition out of curiosity. Windows had to do a chkfs or whatever to check the file system, but after that and a final reboot, everything worked perfectly.

I’d recommend people just skip all these directions and use Gparted to shrink the partition they want.

By: shervin

shervin — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:25:56 +0000

hi friends
i have problem with “Install Windows XP on Your Pre-Installed Windows Vista Computer”.i do that on my 64 bit windows 7 & can`t install win xp on partition .i like to back my shrink partition to general partition.but i don`t khow how to do this.please help me to back this partition to general partition.

By: Vikas

Vikas — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 04:33:02 +0000

Thanks a lot. I could successfully shrink space dual-boot vista and Ubuntu 9.0.4.

Thanks,
Vikas

By: Ron

Ron — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:39:32 +0000

One more step. If hiberfil.sys won’t delete…….
It may be necessary to turn off Hibernation with a command window. Type: powercfg -h off

By: Skar

Skar — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 18:27:36 +0000

Worked absolutely flawless on a fresh Windows 7 installation that had only a 1 TB size partition. Thank you so much. I now have a 150 GB C: and one more partition for music and movies and stuff.