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I want to create a new partition, I guess about 10gbs or so to install windows 7 on. I go into disk management tools on vista, and right click on my C drive and choose to shrink, but it says I only have 2gbs free. When I go to the drive through my computer though, it says there are 44gbs free. Why is it saying I only have 2gbs and how do I fix it?
Maybe this
Understanding the size discrepancy
Chances are that you’ll discover that the Size of Available Shrink Space can be much less than you would see if you were to look at the amount of free space displayed in Computer. As you can see in this example Shrink dialog box, the maximum amount of space that the Disk Management console tool can use for a second partition is 7 GB even though Computer shows that there is 61 GB of available space.
The reason for this discrepancy is that the size of the available space can be restricted by the amount of space currently allocated to and the location on the hard disk of page, restore, shadow copy, and hibernation files. The location of the files plays a big part here for the mere fact that these files are marked as unmovable and the Disk Management console tool is unable to relocate them.
As such, if these unmovable files are located middle of the total amount of free space on the disk, only the amount of free space on the other side of the files will actually be available to the new partition.
The Disk Management Help file briefly mentions that you may be able to work around this scenario by moving the page file to another to another disk and deleting the show copies. However, after disabling the page file, disabling hibernation, disabling the System Restore, using Disk Cleanup to delete System Restore and Shadow Copy files, and defragging the hard disk, I was still unable to get more available space for the second partition.
.http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10878_11-6170510.html
I deleted all the temp files and recovery points like it said. Didn;t change anything. Then I went through my hard drive and cleared out about 20gbs of random shit I didn't need anymore. Still no change. Fuck.
http://www.iobit.com/advancedwindowscareper.html
You can try this. It has a Disk cleaner - Registry DeFrag and Smart DeFrag. Maybe it will do it.
It is a good idea to run a defrag on a HDD before creating a new partition anyway.