I have seen other people with that problem and as far as I know there is no solution.:smileysad:

 

You could try an offline defrag with Perfect Disk, but I`m not too hopeful that would move them either.

 

The only other option would be to reinstall and create your partition then

 

http://www.theeldergeekvista.com/vista_clean_installation.htm

50% of the drive size is the best you will get using the shrink feature in Vista, sorry. It's a half baked feature.

Dunedin and Mombodog,

 

Thank you both for your clear explanations.
I am afraid that I have to leave the new C-partition as big as suggested by Windows. My new data-partiton will then be much smaller than anticipated. A Clean Installation might give a better solution, but I read in other posts that new problems might pop up.
It is a pity that Microsoft did not write the software in such a way that the drive can be used in the way the customers (us, who pay for the product) can use it. Again, in this respect Vista is not an improvement compared to XP.

You are very welcome.

 

There are some "nearly" good things in Vista :smileysad:  Pity MS did not get them right

Welcome my friend,

 

I think MS made it that way on purpose, so other partition software companies would not complain to loudly.