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| Hey, Im running vista unltimate and When I try to shrink volume, (because i want to dual boot) the following error message comes up
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| From the highlight in the screenshot, it looks like you're trying to shrink "C" -- which you can't, because you're using it. Looks like your other volume is the game CD.
The link below is in our Installation forum -- which is where you should have posted this question in the first place. If you read through the pages, you'll see a discussion of the "diskpart" command that should be able to do what you want. You'll need a Vista DVD or an WinPE CD to boot to a command line to do that.
http://apcmag.com/5485/dualbooting_vista_and_xp
You get the best results when you boot to a CD, outside Windows, and use a third-party utility to adjust the partition sizes. I've used Acronis Disk Director (DD) and highly recommend that. DD costs around $50 these days. Whether or not it's worth spending that to ensure that a multi-hundred (or thousand) dollar investment in a PC, apps, and personal data is not corrupted -- is a personal decision.
There are also a variety of Linux-based boot disks you can download from the internet, and while some of them load the NTFS-3G package (which does the best job of being able to manage NTFS-formatted partitions from inside Linux), personally, I strongly recommend against using them because if they do make any mistakes, you may have to completely reinstall Vista from scratch.
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Running: XP Pro, Vista Ultimate 32-bit, Vista Business, Ubuntu 7.10, Ubuntu 8.04 LTS
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