Vista Shrink Volume stole 50GB

[smarteyeball]

Hi all,

I have 3 hard drives. The first drive contains XP and Vista. The 2nd and 3rd 320GB drives are for Program files and storage respectively.

I decided to shrink one of my 320GB drives by 50GB to create a partition using the Disk Management feature. When I shrunk the volume I had an error stating that there was not enough room and that the operation was canceled. However the size of available space on the drive has shrunk by 50GB from 260GB free to 210GB free with NO unallocated space or any indication where it has gone. I'm stumped on how to go about recovering the missing space

The total capacity is now showing as 246.75 rather than 298.

Any help much appreciated.

[ski]

If Vista does not have an option to increase the HD's volume back to normal, then one possible option is to transfer it's files to the other 320 GB HD, repartition the shrunken HD, and transfer the files back.

[smarteyeball]

This is what i decide to do. I'd run out of options. Since it was my program file folder, I hope that giving it the same drive letter will have no negative effects.

With a blank drive, any size smaller than the maximum caused any unallocated space to disapear. Strange and frustrating.

Thanks for the reply.