Before you read that read about Disk Management in help,
You propose to expand your partition, then create a new second partition,
when you allready have the space to create a new partion using the free
space.
Your making life difficult for yourself

"BEA" <BEA@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Folks,
>
> Seems this has been asked many times in the past, and FYI a really good
> sol'n is http://mlf.linux.rulez.org/mlf/ezaz/ntfsresize.html .
>
> Thanks,
> BEA
>
> "BEA" wrote:
>
> > 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