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Dear Koolkat
I'm relieved to see you are still helping me - thanks.
Yes, a bit of misunderstanding seems to be going on.
I don't think I got the drift of your contribution and I'm not sure I've quite got my situation across to you either.
I agree that Windows is often blamed for stuff that isn't its fault. I happen to be a great fan of Windows 7.
I'm pretty good at keeping things up to date, although I accept there may be an odd driver that has a more recent version that I haven't tracked down.
The BSODs were, rather than occurring during the shrink/create process, a recurrent problem once the new partition was in place. Until I recreate the new partition I don't have a problem and I don't know whether or not I will have a problem when I do. My system was stable before and has been stable after I removed the new partition. The instability prevailed only when the new partition was present. As indicated to GregRocker, I'll update the thread when I've done all that he suggested.
I hope that is more clear?