partition harddrive

[Lord Sarg]

hello. i am trying to partition my hdd but for some reason it wont let me shrink the hdd as much a i want to.

os: vista home
hdd size: 222gb
space left: 153gb

total size before shrink in MB: 228128
size available shrink space in MB: 659

i wanna make a partition that has at least around 50 gb. what do i do?

 

[Yeorwned]

You need to defragment your hard drive. After that defragment completes, use the Vista tool to create or extend a partition as large as it will allow you to assign. If that isn't enough and you still have lots of free space, rinse and repeat by defragging and extending the new partition you just made again. You might have to do this ten times before getting the partition to the size you wanted.

What happens is the NTFS file system has a parity block that is intentionally placed in the middle of your free space. No tool, regardless of price, can move this block to a specific location while Windows is running. There are tools that perform a more thorough defragment but they are not required.