I’m trying to partition my 350gb hdd to have a 40gb partition so that I can install Windows 7. I am currently running Windows Vista 32-bit. I can’t partition more than 10gb. I’ve defragmented my drive using PerfectDisk 11 several times and also set it to defrag the files that couldn’t be defragmented while the hard drive was in use, to defrag when the computer boots. Also, when I analyze the “C:” partition(which I’m trying to shrink), with PerfectDisk 11, I have alot of excluded blocks. I can’t unexclude them in the PerfectDisk setting and I would like to include them in the Deframenting process. Please help.
I’ve tried using a gparted live cd too and I get a flag next to the “C:” partition and I can’t shrink it beyond 10gb too. I’ve ran multiple disk checks to see if there’s something wrong with my hdd but can’t come up with anything. In gparted when I click for more info on the “C:” partition I get some errors in “clusters” or something like that. Then it shows a number like 0x00000000 but with different digits and characters. It says there’s 192 of these errors. I’ve tried fixing it with gparted too and I get an error. Please help!