[atrac]

Hi,

just bought an dell xps 1330 with 200gb harddrive. I want to allocate, say, 30gb for vista and program files, then make a new partition for data. I realise that vista now can shrink partitions, and approximates some of the functionality of partition magic etc on xp. The problem is that vista wont let me shrink the c: to less than 80gb. The whole reason for shrinking is then to image the drive once every week or so for imaging, so I really just want the programs etc on the c: partition, and 80gb is too big.

Can anyone help me to fix this? I've looked around and cant see that 3rd party partitioning apps are currently supporting vista.

Thanks,

Toby.

[myfavoritemartin]

Acronis Disk Director 10 works with Vista and will do what you want, but use carefully.

[Noyb]

As I remember .. I was able to get down to 50gig ???
I wouldn't go smaller than that for Vista ... It needs a lot more than XP.

Acronis Disc Director is OK .. Throw PM away.
What are you going to Image C: with ... Acronis True Image ??

[Elvandil]

For the best results from shrinking, try defragging the drive with an offline defragger that will move all the files away from the partition boundary.