Shrinking a partition using Win 7 inbuilt software
I've just done exactly that on a Win 7 Home setup (to allow the insertion of a second partition). I was surprised to find how little I could shrink it. The original partition was 285gig, with about 45 gig used. The most I could shrink it was by 127 gig.
Even after moving all the data (about 11 gig) off the original partition and into the new partition, it still would not allow me to shrink it any further. I'm now left with a C drive of about 150 gig where I'd be happy with one of about 50 gig, as I prefer to have just programs on the boot partition and all data on a separate partition.
I've used Acronis True Image to do this on earlier (XP) setups, but my version of True Image is not compatible with Win 7. Since Windows 7 (supposedly) provides inbuilt partition-creating software, I thought I might get away without having to buy the new version of True Image. Can anyone tell me if I'm missing something, or should get out the credit card?