Can't create partition for Linux with Vista

[mjreiman]

I just recently bought an HP Laptop with Vista Home Premium. It comes with two partitions already on it. One is a (D10.85GB Recovery partition that will allow me to shrink the size. The other is (C222GB partition that's labeled as Vista OS. I attempt to shrink the C: partition so I can have an unallocated partition in order to install SuSe linux. The problem is that it says I have no available shrink space. I can only shrink the smaller of the two and I have hit a wall as to why. I thought maybe it was the sharing over my network but I turned off the sharing and disconnected it as a network drive and still nothing.

Any help would be GREATLY appreciated!


Thanks,
Matt

[SalVatore]

I was also facing similar type of issue and when i called up HP support they told me that i need to uninstall one of the operating system and then only i can shrink my drive. I hope you also have to do the same, you can also check out below threads with similar problem

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