Windows 7 wont let me create a partition

Patricide

Recently installed windows 7 and im extremely happy with it as its running great. However im having extreme difficulty making another partition on it.

I have a 250 gig hard-drive(really its 232) and right now there is 151 gb free. What i want to do is create a partition of 80gb so i can keep all my audio recording programs on there own partition. However no matter what I do it wont allow me to do this, i could be going about it the wrong way however.

At the moment im going into disk management, right clicking on the hard-drive, and trying to shrink it to 152 gb so i can create a new partition. I try to shrink it by 80 gb(or 80000 mb) but it wont let me saying that theirs the max i can shrink it by is 49170. This is the part thats got me confused as hell.

If i have a 232 gb hard drive and ive only used just over 80 gb why cant i shrink the partition by more than this? is there something im missing here?

Any help to getting my problem sorted would be awesome.

heres some pics if they might help:

BopNiblets

Some unmoveable files are blocking the shrink looks like to me.

Auvers

try a free 3rd party app like

http://www.partitionwizard.com/

Komplett-Tech: Ryan

Try this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0Kqj44S-iY

See if it works for you.

Borat_Sagdiyev

Patricide wrote: »

Recently installed windows 7 and im extremely happy with it as its running great. However im having extreme difficulty making another partition on it.

I have a 250 gig hard-drive(really its 232) and right now there is 151 gb free. What i want to do is create a partition of 80gb so i can keep all my audio recording programs on there own partition. However no matter what I do it wont allow me to do this, i could be going about it the wrong way however.

At the moment im going into disk management, right clicking on the hard-drive, and trying to shrink it to 152 gb so i can create a new partition. I try to shrink it by 80 gb(or 80000 mb) but it wont let me saying that theirs the max i can shrink it by is 49170. This is the part thats got me confused as hell.

If i have a 232 gb hard drive and ive only used just over 80 gb why cant i shrink the partition by more than this? is there something im missing here?

Any help to getting my problem sorted would be awesome.

heres some pics if they might help:

If you try and partition your drive using the Win7 installation disk instead of trying to do it within Win7 you should have more luck. I don't think that part of disk management was really designed for this sort of stuff, more like assigning unassigned space etc...

Reducing the allocated space for a drive is a different ball game altogether.

Patricide

Peglegged wrote: »

try a free 3rd party app like

http://www.partitionwizard.com/

Partition magic worked a treat, got my partition made in about 5 minutes. Thanks again for the help!