To those who [care and] don't remember, I wanted to install Linux Mint right next to Vista. But Vista wouldn't shrink its filesystem. I ended up using an evaluation copy of PerfectDisk. It defraggmented Vista beautifully, moving scattered system files back to the main area. Following that, Vista shrunk itself nicely.<br>
<br>Just wanted to close the loop.<br><br clear="all">-- Asher <br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 6:52 PM, Asher Vilensky <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ashervilensky@gmail.com">ashervilensky@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br clear="all">-- Asher <br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 6:28 PM, Geoffrey <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lists@serioustechnology.com" target="_blank">lists@serioustechnology.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>Asher Vilensky wrote:<br>
> Yuck! My disk size is 140G. The partition is about 137G. I had about<br>
> 90G free before the shrinking. However, the Vista shrink program game<br>
> me only about 13G for other partitions and kept 76G free of disk space<br>
> for the current C: partition (Partition_1). I tried to re-shrink, but<br>
> it wouldn't allow. Any other Vista secrets to help convince this stupid<br>
> OS that I HAVE THE SPACE...IT IS MINE...GIVE IT TO ME?<br>
><br>
> -- Asher<br>
<br>
</div>Hmmm, we didn't seem to have that problem. So you can't shrink the<br>
Vista partition any smaller?<br></blockquote></div><div><br>Found this, which confirms that Vista is buggy:<br><br><a href="http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/working-around-windows-vistas-shrink-volume-inadequacy-problems/" target="_blank">http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/working-around-windows-vistas-shrink-volume-inadequacy-problems/</a><br>
<br><br>Will try it soon. To be continued...<br><br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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--<div class="im"><br>
Until later, Geoffrey<br>
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