Partition issues....HELP!!!

Hi all.....Having a problem after dual-boot install of Vista & 7RC. My HD is 250GB, of which 225GB is used on the Vista partition. When I shrank the volume to create space for the 7RC it only would give me 7.62GB;tried over and over to make a bigger space, that's all I could get. Now the partition for 7 is pretty much full; only have 296MB left...while the Vista part used 158GB out of the 225. I read that you could delete the pagefile.sys and hiberfil.sys to make more space available...Should I??? What would happen to my PC if I did so??? Thank you for any help!!!

Thanks for your quick reply....I have a 32-bit system/ I have Easeus and tried it but it always says there's an error. Not sure what I'm doing wrong. I also updated my PC specs; they should be listed. Thanks again!!

The error is the free Easeus doesn't come with a boot disc.

You can't move system files with the windows GUI while you are booted into the o/s partition, neither can you move them on the System partition that way.

There is a bootable partition manager attached to this tutorial:

Dual Boot using free partitioning software - Vista Forums

If you post a screenshot of Disk Management we can advise how to proceed, like this:



Also , do you need to keep your existing 7 installation, or would you be happy to reinstall after reorganising the partritions.

You don't have to reinstall, you can keep both installations by repartitioning and shifting - it's just a couple more steps are needed.

I have tested Acronis DiskDirector Suite v.12 on several systems, Vista and XP, on IDE and SATA HD. It has always been able to adjust partitions as I needed... both ways, up or down...

Whichever way is easiest, but it's no biggie if I have to reinstall;already did it twice already. Trying to get a screenshot of my disk management;how do I do that? I have a ScanDisk CruzerMicro 2GB USB Flash drive; noticed that in the disk management ,when it's plugged in it shows as a 1.88GB FAT healthy (Active primary partition). Can I use that to help me? I can show it to you, if you explain how to take a screenshot and post it on here....

Take a jpeg screenshot of the Disk Management window - use whatever screen capture tool you have, or the Snipping Tool.

Click the Go Advanced button at the bottom of this page , then follow Step 8 onward of this tutorial:

How to use the Snipping Tool in Vista - Vista Forums

Hope it helps

Ok, I'm downloading Paragon Partition Manager Express as I type (takes about an hour and some min) and I figured out the Snipping Tool...here's the screenshot; any ideas on what I could do? I appreciate your help!!

WOW! the windows 7 setup let you install on a partition that small, that should not happen.

Well it did and i've had no problems with it....WEIRD!!! I got it from the Microsoft site directly and used ISO Burner and burned it to a DVD+RW/4x 4.7GB 2hr disc, then created the partition and installed it; no probs at all...maybe there's some sort of compression involved here I really don't know....what's your take???