The images at the following link were taken before and after the "Shrink"
step and I've
also included the error message.

[url]http://www.donireland.com/partition.html[/url]


"Don I" <newsgr0ups@donireland.com> wrote in message
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> I succeeded at creating a new 2GB volume (formated as drive F) using
> the steps listed in the article provided in this
> article--http://lifehacker.com/photogallery/vistarepartition/.
>
> But when I try to create a 10GB volume, it tells me that I don't have
> enough drive space--even though there's more than 100gb free.
>
> Before doing anything, the C drive shows capacity 136 gb, 100gb free. I
> successfully used the shrink uption to get 10gb of unallocated space.
> Then I attempted to create the volume and assign a drive letter to it.
> But it tells me that there's not enough free space.
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