Sparks Posted June 18, 2010 Report Share Posted June 18, 2010 Right Last week sometime my laptop had a blue screen some thing like this ( not the exact one) so now i have backed all my documents up, i took all my university work off so i now have around 68Gb of storage free. So i wanted to Duel boot my laptop just so that if anything does wrong i can still enter my laptop. so here come the problem....... to duel boot i know i have to shrink my partition, as i have done this before. But when i try to do it this time i doesnt work as i waould expect, as i said i have around 68GB storage free. but when i try to shrink my partition it will only let me reduce it but around 6GB, i have dont a harddrive defrag and this is now 0%. here is the pic of me trying to shrink my harddrive- Any ideas how i could fix this peeps ?????????????? Thanks marc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Val (Zebedee) Posted June 18, 2010 Report Share Posted June 18, 2010 in a word ............... .......................... no! Sorry, Marc will have to be woken up to answer this one, me thinks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Tikaani&Aiyana Posted June 18, 2010 Report Share Posted June 18, 2010 Huh?!! Sorry no idea Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparks Posted June 18, 2010 Author Report Share Posted June 18, 2010 No problem Peeps, i think its got something to do with system files that are immovable during a disk Defrag, but im not too sure Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunc Posted June 18, 2010 Report Share Posted June 18, 2010 The problem you have is not that hard to sort and because am here on laptop I'll leave it to Marc but can I have a stab at the reason you got the blue screen in the 1st place ? Do you download ? Do you use utorrent ? Does it crash after you have started a download ? If yes to the above you dont need to do anything Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lil Miss Bump Posted June 18, 2010 Report Share Posted June 18, 2010 u've lost me!!! hope u get it fixed tho Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparks Posted June 18, 2010 Author Report Share Posted June 18, 2010 The problem you have is not that hard to sort and because am here on laptop I'll leave it to Marc but can I have a stab at the reason you got the blue screen in the 1st place ? Do you download ? Do you use utorrent ? Does it crash after you have started a download ? If yes to the above you dont need to do anything i do download but not much, and no it dont crash if i start a download Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarah Posted June 18, 2010 Report Share Posted June 18, 2010 woah Right over my head will shout marc to have a look after the game Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparks Posted June 18, 2010 Author Report Share Posted June 18, 2010 woah Right over my head will shout marc to have a look after the game Thank you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidjk Posted June 18, 2010 Report Share Posted June 18, 2010 what OS are you running? all versions of windows have defrag you just need to find it. usually right click on hard disk in windows explorer and choose tools it might not be able to make the partition smaller because there are unmovable files in the way, can you do it in safe mode? i dont remember and im to lazy to look lol a crash can happen at anytime and for no apparent reason, if it has only happened once i would not be 2 concerned. however if it starts to become a regular occurrence then it might be time for a new laptop also to dual boot you need the earlier OS installed first. also worth noting that if you are running xp dont bother putting on a newer OS to dual boot as it wont necessarily speed it up, but if you have vista then an upgrade to 7 will make a difference Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparks Posted June 18, 2010 Author Report Share Posted June 18, 2010 i got windows 7 32bit, was going to duel boot with windows 7 64 buit, it has only happened once yes not sure if you are able to do it in safe mode maybe worth a try........ i have done a defrag on it and it is now at 0% fragmented so i cant see why it not working Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidjk Posted June 18, 2010 Report Share Posted June 18, 2010 the laptop came with 32bit windows? does it have a 64bit processor? 64bit can be slower than 32bit. i noticed on 2 pcs one a dual core one a quad core the systems where slower on 64bit i would reboot your laptop and try a defrag again, it could be an open program preventing defrag from running properly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparks Posted June 18, 2010 Author Report Share Posted June 18, 2010 yea it came with vista 32bit, but i upgraded to windows 7. so if i restore from the recovery partition it will go bk to vista........ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc Posted June 18, 2010 Report Share Posted June 18, 2010 Laptop blue screens 9 times out of every 10 are cause by overheating. Ur a handy guy Marc, I would suggest giving it a good clean out. Will warn u though that they are a bit of a pest to pull to pieces etc.. As for the Harddrive issue I can tell you almost certainly what this will be .... Have a look at windows backup. The backups do not show as used space and therefore get a little confusing when trying to shrink partitions. You need to go into the backup manager and delete the backups from there. Once you have done that you will find that you can shrink as you have been trying to do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparks Posted June 19, 2010 Author Report Share Posted June 19, 2010 right i have now got rid of my backup information, like you said (pic Below) but it will still only let me shrink it by 6GB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rathian Posted June 19, 2010 Report Share Posted June 19, 2010 Try these links out, they may be of use. How to shrink a partition Dual booting win7 32 & 64 bit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparks Posted June 19, 2010 Author Report Share Posted June 19, 2010 Try these links out, they may be of use. How to shrink a partition Dual booting win7 32 & 64 bit Thanks for that but i have no problem of how to do it, but it just wont let me, i havnt used the command prompt method before, but i cant see there being much difference and i have 77GB free now and it will only let me shrink 6GB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rathian Posted June 19, 2010 Report Share Posted June 19, 2010 I have only ever dual booted windows with linux. On each occassion windows has been installed first and Linux did everything for me. Does windows not have the same option in the install menus? I am sure you can partition off etc when installing. You wouldn't have to try and shrink your partition from within windows then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc Posted June 19, 2010 Report Share Posted June 19, 2010 You removed the backup setup, but did you remove the actual backups? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparks Posted June 19, 2010 Author Report Share Posted June 19, 2010 You removed the backup setup, but did you remove the actual backups? ohhh ummm, im not sure where it is located, i have never actually had a backup setup, as i have never backed it up like that, i just back up all my documents using a Batch file. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rathian Posted June 19, 2010 Report Share Posted June 19, 2010 Your problem is with your unmoveable file. You either need to use the windows install disc or use a third party application like Gparted to get the problem area moved. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rathian Posted June 19, 2010 Report Share Posted June 19, 2010 Try this step by step guide how to Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparks Posted June 19, 2010 Author Report Share Posted June 19, 2010 Thanks for that rob , but i cant get it to work so im just going to leave it, it has only Blue Screened once so hopefully it wont do it again. if it does do it again then i will have to sort it then....... its not a huge issue i suppose i can still use my laptop how i want to, just not duel boot, so i can live with that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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