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

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.

By: TomH

TomH — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:54:29 +0000

It worked! Thank you so much!

All that was necessary for me was to run those two disk defragmenting programmes… which also freed up about 35GB! Thank you very much for this helpful guide!

By: Poul

Poul — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 13:40:12 +0000

I forgot something even cooler. It also allowed me extend the VISTA partition to the left, Physically moving the OS files, into the unallocated space (12GB) left behind from removing the factory installed recovery partition after having burned the recovery disks.

By: Poul

Poul — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 13:27:35 +0000

I tried all of the above solutions on a VISTA system, and nothing worked, except diskperfect, which I didn’t try, because I ran into this gem. I resized an 205GB OS partition to 80GB in one go.

EASEUS Partition Master Professional http://www.partition-tool.com/professional.htm

note: I didn’t try the home edition, which is completely free. Might work just as well. http://www.partition-tool.com/personal.htm

It says on the page that Pro will allow 64bit systems and free only 32bit systems

Anyways it will resize and move your OS files upon reboot and the reboots again. Don’t be scared when VISTA tells you upon reboot that there is something wrong. Just choose start normally and the program will finish rewriting the important files.

Of course it’s always best to have a backup for worse case scenario.

Some of the programs I tried before this promised the world but instead ran into the same problems like many of the above posters. One even gave me the dreaded BSOD until I booted into safe mode and removed it through a lot of hazzle. I won’t mention which one, since it was a program people usually praise through the roof and then some. Might have been computer specific.