Many people want to resize their Hard Drives after they have installed Vista on it.  Most people automatically search for some shareware program that will do this for them so that they don’t have to re-install Windows and they don’t have to pay for Partition Magic.  One often overlooked feature of Vista is the ability to resize partitions, and do it well!

To resize your Vista Partition click on Start – Control Panel

Double Click the Administrative Tools Icon.

In the administrative tools window you will see Computer Management. Double click it.

Now that you have computer management open, look down the list on the left. Click on Disk Management. Now look at the top middle part of the window. Find the disk you want to resize and single click on it. Once you have done this a list of volumes on that drive will appear below the top window.
Right click on the volume you want to resize and you will be given the option to shrink or expand it. If an option is grayed out it means you either cannot shrink it any smaller, or cannot expand it any larger.

We will be shrinking my drive.

When it is shrinking there is no progress bar or window so just hold steady until the process is finished.  It took about 30 seconds for my drive to be shrunk.

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