I can't shrink available partition during install

[Alan Dacey Sr.]

On Saturday 14 November 2009 02:59:12 pm Kılıç Köken wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> I installed Karmic on a couple different computers. On only one of them,
> installation process didn't give me possibility to shrink available vista
> partition, so that I could install Karmic.
> 
> I shrank the vista partition from inside vista. But still Karmic install cd
> didn't allow me to install Karmic on that new space. What can be the reason
> for that. Does it depend on hard drive type for instance?
> 
> Thanks.
> 

It could be that there is a file far out on the partition.  Try to defrag while 
in Vista about five times until it doesn't do anything.  That should compact 
everything.
-- 
Alan

"When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion."
Abraham Lincoln