Resizing partitions

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I have always like Diskeeper.

Bernie said:
I've been using the Vista beta Diskeeper 10 on each installation of Vista
and I like it. It does the job very well and with minimum, if any,
disruption to my being able to use the system. I'd like it more if it
could defrag individual files of my choosing. Is there a defragger that
can do that?
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In case anyone has lost the original thought of this thread:

I just now did a Shrink using Vista Disk Management, on a 250 Gig SATA
drive. It took about a minute, with no indication of progress; just a busy
hourglass. When complete, I had a new partition that needed a Quick Format.

The shrink gave me a Maximum size for the new partion, about 90 Gig (or you
could say it gave me a Minimum for the original partition). This left a 140
primary partition. It would not let me set that partition to be any smaller.

Does anyone know why?
 
In case anyone has lost the original thought of this thread:

I just now did a Shrink using Vista Disk Management, on a 250 Gig SATA
drive. It took about a minute, with no indication of progress; just a busy
hourglass. When complete, I had a new partition that needed a Quick Format.

The shrink gave me a Maximum size for the new partion, about 90 Gig (or you
could say it gave me a Minimum for the original partition). This left a 140
primary partition. It would not let me set that partition to be any smaller.

Does anyone know why?
 
Miker said:
Does anyone know why?
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I don't know why but I wonder if it might be due to fragmentation of
files on your original partition. Did you defrag before shrinking? There
is the actual space your files take up and there is the placement of
those files on the drive.

I have done a shrink using the Vista tool and it went very fast and
smoothly. I shrank it by the amount I wanted to but I couldn't say if
Vista would have not allowed me to do any other size.
 
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