XP has no native capability to "Shrink" Basic volumes. You'll need a
disk management program. Personally, I use Acronis Disk Director.
However, unless you plan on future disk management uses it's hard
to justify a purchase for a single operation. You might want to check
on BootItNG which has a full featured trial. It's good, but it's interface
can be a little clunky/hard to navigate.

Vista will take up a good bit of disk space on it's own ( ~6.0 Gig )
It may be a good idea to purchase a second dedicated drive to use
with Windows Vista. I've seen 100-Gigabyte 7200RPM drives at
Office supply stores for under $80.


"BEA" <BEA@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Folks,
>
> My hdd partition shows free space 29.8 GB, of 74.3 GB. How can I
> repartition
> the total space so that the used space is left intact, free space is
> reduced,
> and new unpartition space is created? Would like to create a new partition
> for a Windows Vista install.
>
> Thanks,
> -BEA