[bennyblancola]

When attempting to "Shrink Volume", Vista tells me that the "Size of available shrink space in MB" is 254MB...however, I have over 70GB's of free hard drive space!!!!

There is a notification at the bottom of the "Shrink C:" screen that says, "Size of available shrink space can be restricted if snapshots or pagefiles are enabled on the volume."

I very new to this so any detailed explanation would be of great assistance. Any advice???

[piyushsingh]

That means that you have something at the end of the drive that is limiting the shrinking of the partition.It can be the pagefile, the volume shadow copy of the drive , some system files or system restore data.Try defragmenting and then trying to shrink the again. If that doesnt create enough space , you can disable pagefile and "volume shadow copy" for this particular drive and then try again.You should enable these after you get the job done.

[VladTheImpaler1990]

Hey there, i would advise you to rather back up your files and prgrams that are needed and then do a reformat, it will help you in th long run as if you want to run a program on xp bt you installed it on vista then it will not run, so if you reformat then you can install the programs that you want to run on the certain OS's.