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kathiesnot

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Hihope that someone can help here, have new problem now,
Have win vista on new computer and have 450 gbs and 3gb memory, my questionis that I am trying to shrink my volume © so I can get an extra disk, so when I go into the disk manager and right click on the shrink volume it will only give me 5gb/s to use, there is 92% free on os and cannot seem to get it to shrink any more, did the command thing too and it still is only giving me 5gbs of space when there are hundreds of gbs available not being used,
does anyone know how to increase this volume for me, I would like to use at least 200 gb's My C drive is using only 8gbs so there is a lot of space there buy cant get at it, thanks, K
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stupidhomer

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Try using a different disk partitioning software, If you want a free one then try gparted, http://downloads.sou...mp;big_mirror=0 burn it to a disk then resize your partition by booting off the cd
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Hi many thanks, just got your note and went to the download and downloaded the program so will burn it and let you know how I make out. thanks, again, Kathie
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Hi many thanks, just got your note and went to the download and downloaded the program so will burn it and let you know how I make out. thanks, again, Kathie

Sorry if this reply is a little late, but did it work? you haven't replied in a month to say if it worked
EDIT: oh! i just checked and you made a new topic, ignore this then

Edited by stupidhomer, 01 March 2009 - 05:41 AM.

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