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Two approaches, both of which I've used:
1. Use Partition Wizard CD and use partition wizard to shrink. We have a couple of tutorials on using Partition Wizard. Just search the tutorial index for Partition Wizard
2. Use Win 7 Backup and Restore to make an image backup of C.
shrink the partition
Use Win 7 Backup and Restore to restore the image.
immediately shrink the partition.
Repeat the backup and restore until you get the partition down to where you want.
There is still another way but which is quicker but I'don't want to be responsible for any goofs.
If you use the Win 7 Backup and Restore, then first set to no paging file, turn hibernation off, reduce number of restore points to 1 and then decrease the space for restore points to just over the amount of space the 1 restore point needs., seartch of %temp% and delete everything found.
Win 7 puts some key files at about 1/2 of size of space available so that even if you had only 50gb of data,etc, if your disk was 1 TB you end up not being able to shrink past 500GB.
Now maybe you see why the repeated save the image. shrink, restore the image, shrink.
The easy way out is to use Partition Wizard, but you are going to need to make a backup first just in case anything goes wrong.
Right. How much space did you shrink the C: drive by? In Disk Management is there some Unallocated Space equal to the amount you shrunk?