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    Ntfsresize success...where's my free space???

    I am planning to replace vista with xp soon. Can't afford an external drive :P so i planned to shrink my vista partition and use that freed space as a backup partition. V!sta's native partition manager wont let me shrink further so i turned to trusty ntfsresize on my kubuntu. so i first did a dry run:

    sudo ntfsresize -n -s 160G /dev/sda1

    The test proved successful so i did the real thing:

    sudo ntfsresize -s 160G /dev/sda1

    and eventually it was also successful. So i booted back into windows (after a chkdsk run) and it shows that the C: partition IS 140 gigs smaller but i go to the vista partition manager and it shows that the partition is still 280 gigs big. And the same is for gparted.

    So the questions I ask are:

    Where's my free space?
    How can i solve my problem?

    Thanks in advance!

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    Re: Ntfsresize success...where's my free space

    With Vista, you must use the built in utility to manage the drive. In that utility you have the option to shrink the drive partition that Vista is using.

    Resize a Partition for Free in Windows Vista
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      #3
      Re: Ntfsresize success...where's my free space

      Never mind i got it to work i just used gparted after shrinking and it works

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