Change Partition Size

[antnym5]

I recently purchased a new PC with 250G HDD, with Vista. Dell formatted 10G
for a recovery partition, and left the remaining ~240Gig for the OS. I have
used the Shrink function to decrease that 240Gig to create a new
partition(s), but the shrink function lets me decrease the size by only
~88gig. Which means I now have my partitions as such (C:) at ~150gig, (D:)
at 10Gig and (e:) at 88gig. I would like to decrease the C: partition even
further, since that's >85% unused, but I do not get the option to decrease
that partition even further.

Is this a limitation of Vista to reserve >100Gig for the OS? Or do I need
to buy 3rd party SW (i.e. Partition Magic, etc.) to decrease that further?

Any help is greatly appreciated. I'm new to Vista...so be gentle.

[Patrick Squire]

Hi there,

As far as I know there is no limitation with vista on HDD space (as long as
you give it what it needs plus a healthy few gigs for page file etc)
Check out this site to help with resizing paritions

[fushun]

free partittion magic alternative is a good choice, it helps me 'resize
and manage partitions' very well.