Windows Vista Vista partition shirnk limited

[oakley242424]

Please help me I've looked everywhere on the internet and can't find out how to fix this. I want to shrink my vista partition which should be easy, but it says because of page files and shadow copies that shrink space may be limited, I have 15 gigs free but it only would let me shrink 500 mb, and that isn't close to the amount I need. Please help if you can. Thanks in advance.

 

[Unregistered]

Try turning off system restore first.
That is what is used to create the restore points and shadow copies.

You can also try making the page file a bit smaller. (Not fully advised, but you might be able to get away with it. I would be carefull though.) Most fast systems with a lot of Ram should run fine with no page file in XP. I have not tested this in Vista.

 

[jubai]

you can use a software called "Acronis Disk Director Suite" on Hiren's BootCD.
to shrink the volume.
use this link : Link Removed - Invalid URL
good luck,