Hi,

This line is from the Help files for Disk Manager:

"You can only shrink basic volumes that have no file system or use the NTFS
file system."

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
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"Paul Randall" <paulr901@cableone.net> wrote in message
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> Juan has an answer in front of him, but not necessarily THE answer. There
> might be some system setting that can easily be changed to make that
> option available. A broken system can't be trusted to tell you the truth
> about what it can or can't do.
>
> Having a Microsoft KB article that spells it out would be sufficient to
> make one realize it can't be done.
>
> -Paul Randall
>
> "Rick Rogers" <rick@mvps.org> wrote in message
> news:ezgagcT9JHA.4900@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>> Hi Juan,
>>
>> You already have the answer in front of you. The volume is selected but
>> the options you want are not available. So, no, Vista's disk manager
>> cannot resize a FAT32 volume.
>>
>> --
>> Best of Luck,
>>
>> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
>> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
>> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
>> Vote for my shoe: http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
>>
>> "Juan" <Juan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:B614FB3E-E39E-412C-B43F-FDDEF7161E60@microsoft.com...
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> Does anyone know if Windows Vista can resize a FAT32 partition?
>>> I have a HD with 2 partitions (the 1st one is a FAT32 and the 2nd is a
>>> NTFS), and the expand / shrink options are only available for the NTFS
>>> partition (for the FAT32 partition the options appear in the menu but
>>> are not
>>> available).
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Juan
>>>
>>
>
>