So how is you come to have this free space?
What exactly is shown in Disk Management for this drive?

You can always create a new partition using the free space, which would seem
to be what you want.

"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