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Reclaiming Disk space in Vista

 
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Guys,

I do not know if this is the right forum for this question. But I would like to know how I can reclaim the disk space from a partition. When I right click on it the Expand Volume option appears disabled. Any idea on how to get this done. Thanks in advance!
 
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In Disk Management, if you right-click on a partition of a disk, the Extend Volume option is enabled only if you have free, unallocated space on the disk.

I would like to know how I can reclaim the disk space from a partition.[/close]

This sounds to me like you want to shrink the size of the partition and thus free up some unallocated disk space. Use the Shrink Partition option to do that. But before you do, defragment your drive. The Vista defragmenter is horrible (no visual clues as to disk usage), so I use Defraggler

 
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Thanks for the reply. Could you also please let me know if 80 GB for Vista would be enough? I just partitioned my drives and had a dual boot of Windows and Ubuntu. I have another 40 GB partition where I have planned to install all the softwares that I would ever be using on my Windows partition. Apart from this I would install Maven which would inturn will create a repository of jar files on my Windows user directory. So is this enough space for what I'm trying to do?
 
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My Vista partition on my desktop is only 50GB and I have a lot of stuff installed. Of course, I have a very large second partition where I have all the stuff I am working on (Java stuff, music, videos, etc.) So 80GB should be plenty of room for Vista and the typical apps. But for just the Java stuff (including the local Maven repository), 40GB should be fine.
 
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You are really helpful. Thank you very much. Bug you in the Linux Forum as I'm beginning to get a hold of the Linux OS!
 
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Jothi,

If you will try with the default Vista Device Management you might not get all the space you want to shrink. I mean if you have some 120GB for a drive and you want to shrink it to 40GB and remaining 80GB as a new drive, then while using the default Management it may not allow you to free all that space.

I faced the same problem as the data gets stored in the disk in different sectors not at same place. I mean it dont get accumulated at the very next place which is unoccupied. You can run diskfragmentor to pile up all the data, this may help to free more space. Or you can download some partition tool to work out with.

I have used EASEUS Partition Master, try it out after downloading.
 
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