Diskpart vista shrink

I am trying to create a new partition in Vista to reload XP never should have deleted in the first place. Problem is, when I try to shrink the partition size, it will only allow me to shrink it by 1GB. The drive I am trying to shrink has 45GB of available space. Furthermore, I have defragged the volume, deleted all shadow copies, and ensured that no pagefiles are stored on the volume that I am trying to shrink. Anyone have any clue of how to fix this?

Thanks a ton. Thursday, March 8, AM. Friday, March 9, AM. Did you solve this problem? I am stuck as well. I turned off pagefiles, crash dumps, hibernation, restore points to no effect.

Tuesday, March 13, PM. Did you guys solve this problem? I'm having the same issue. Please let me know if you fixed it and how. Saturday, March 24, AM.

Sunday, March 25, PM. Have you tried to shrink the partition in cmd? Thursday, March 29, PM. Same issue here. Its only allowing me MB but 15GB are free! I assume it has something to do with fragmented data on the drive, but I've run defrag and no change. Wednesday, April 4, PM. Having the exact same issue here. Have disabled pagefile and System restore. Still no luck. I get an error every time and it asks me to restart.

What a pain! Sunday, April 8, PM. Once again I have been disappointed by MS. Diskpart Shrink only works sometimes and when it does, it doesn't want to shrink by the requested amount. Very easy to use! Wednesday, June 27, PM. Thats a bit vague but I worked through it 1. Select a disk and try again. Sunday, October 14, PM. Monday, November 26, PM. The following method actually works. I was in exactly the same situation as you, where I had loads of free space on my partition but any partition shrinking tools wouldn't let me shrink it by more than 78MB.

What the problem is, is that NTFS stores system files such as the MFT and other metadata on the hard drive that cannot be moved while the operating system is running. The problem is that there are some of these NTFS system files left towards the end of your hard drive, meaning that they are in the way of you shrinking your partition. You don't need to disable hibernation, system restore or your page file for this method to work as the software that I used will defrag them all. The answer was in the affirmative.

It is being widely used to assist personal users and IT administrators to optimize computer disk space usage. Refer to the following guide on how to use it to shrink partition in Windows Vista. Step 1. Step 3. But before you continue, make sure that you backup important files and programs in case of any failure. To run DiskPart, type DiskPart. To all your available installed hard disks on the system, simply type list disk , and hit Enter.

To set and select a disk which you want to work with in DiskPart, use the following command syntax:. If the hard disk is empty without any partition or still has unallocated space, a partition can be created on it with the following command syntax:.

The partition types that are supported are primary partition the only bootable type, but limited to four per hard disk , extended partition also limited to four per hard disk to supplement those need more than 4 primary partitions , logical drive to define within extended partition to allow many volumes to be created , EFI system partition and MSR Microsoft Reserved partition.

Note that not all options are available for all partition type. DiskPart allows user to create RAID RAID-5 volume using three or more specified dynamic disks, simple volume or striped volume using two or more specified dynamic disks.

The syntax for the command is:. Use the following command to list all volumes in order to check which number is associated with the volume we want to work with:.

Use the following command to select a volume in order to manage shrink, extend, delete format the volume:. Use the following command to list all partitions in order to check which number is associated with the partition we want to work with:. Use the following command to select a volume in order to manage shrink, extend, delete format the partition:. Here are the latest Insider stories. More Insider Sign Out. Sign In Register. Sign Out Sign In Register.

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