topic Adding a partition: size conflict btw disk management and Shrink tool in PCs & Accessories https://community.sony.com.mk/t5/pcs-accessories/adding-a-partition-size-conflict-btw-disk-management-and-shrink/m-p/131271#M70967 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>VISTA disk mamagement report <STRONG>265 GB free</STRONG> on C: (w total capacity 288GB). The other partition is Sony recovery hidden EISA of about 10 GB.<BR /><BR />Now when I right click C: to shrink it, the shrink windows lists:<BR />size before shrink: 295 MB<BR />size of available shrink space: <STRONG>92 GB</STRONG><BR />Amount of space to shrink: 92 GB<BR />Total size after shrink: 263 Gb<BR /><BR />Why can't I shrink more than 92 GB when there are 265 Gb free on this drive? Is it the RAID 0 which confuses Vista?<BR /><BR />Thanks in advance<BR /></P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 10 Aug 2007 11:23:21 GMT Niska 2007-08-10T11:23:21Z Adding a partition: size conflict btw disk management and Shrink tool https://community.sony.com.mk/t5/pcs-accessories/adding-a-partition-size-conflict-btw-disk-management-and-shrink/m-p/131271#M70967 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>VISTA disk mamagement report <STRONG>265 GB free</STRONG> on C: (w total capacity 288GB). The other partition is Sony recovery hidden EISA of about 10 GB.<BR /><BR />Now when I right click C: to shrink it, the shrink windows lists:<BR />size before shrink: 295 MB<BR />size of available shrink space: <STRONG>92 GB</STRONG><BR />Amount of space to shrink: 92 GB<BR />Total size after shrink: 263 Gb<BR /><BR />Why can't I shrink more than 92 GB when there are 265 Gb free on this drive? Is it the RAID 0 which confuses Vista?<BR /><BR />Thanks in advance<BR /></P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 10 Aug 2007 11:23:21 GMT https://community.sony.com.mk/t5/pcs-accessories/adding-a-partition-size-conflict-btw-disk-management-and-shrink/m-p/131271#M70967 Niska 2007-08-10T11:23:21Z Re: Adding a partition: size conflict btw disk management and Shrink tool https://community.sony.com.mk/t5/pcs-accessories/adding-a-partition-size-conflict-btw-disk-management-and-shrink/m-p/131272#M70968 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Solved my problem by giving up on Vista shrink tool.<BR /><BR />I bought Acronis disk director v10. I works like a charm in Vista and I got my partition <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":anguished_face:">😧</span> with all the disk space I needed<BR /></P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 17 Aug 2007 18:47:28 GMT https://community.sony.com.mk/t5/pcs-accessories/adding-a-partition-size-conflict-btw-disk-management-and-shrink/m-p/131272#M70968 Niska 2007-08-17T18:47:28Z