Access is Denied on vista

[dragonwolf13]

Hi guys, as my PC is down I finished building my second son's PC and I'm using it till mine is fixed, so as I'm trying to partition the hard drive I get this message ( Access is Denied ) the pic shows exactly what it is.
http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/3322/deniedp.jpg
I did every thing I could think of, making sure I'm Administrator and every thing. I google it to and no luck. Can some one help? :brick:
Thanks for any help.

[SoulsCollective]

Needs more info. Which partitioning program? What hardware and HDD? Which version of Vista? Can you walk us through exactly what you're doing?

[dragonwolf13]

Needs more info. Which partitioning program? What hardware and HDD? Which version of Vista? Can you walk us through exactly what you're doing?

I'm using windows to partition it, I have vista home prim 64bit, hdd is a W.D. blue 400GB, board is a Asus Maximus II Formula, CPU E8400 @3.11, Ram is Kingston HyperX T1 2X2GB, Video is HIS 4670. I go into :banana::banana::banana::banana: Management under Admin Tools and Computer Management than I right click on the C drive click on shrink, it start to do it's thing for a few seconds than the message comes up.
I have partition my driver like this before and this is the first time this happen.

[dragonwolf13]

For some dum reason bananas keep popping up in my post.
Disk management is what it should say.

[RAW-Raptor22]

For some dum reason bananas keep popping up in my post.
Disk management is what it should say.

You sure you arent typing :banana::banana::banana::banana: management? :p:

Which is weird because I have a couple friends named D!ck... whats wrong with D!ck?

[dragonwolf13]

You sure you arent typing :banana::banana::banana::banana: management? :p:

Which is weird because I have a couple friends named D!ck... whats wrong with D!ck?
:rofl: Ya, I see I misspell Disk which I got :banana::banana::banana::banana: :ROTF:

[SoulsCollective]

The included partitioning tool in Windows Disk Management will not allow you to shrink the partition currently marked as active (I'm presuming because you're trying to shrink the C: drive that this is the currently active system partition - which it will be unless you renamed things).

You're going to need to either boot into the Vista setup disk, press Shift+F10 to access the command line, and then use diskpart, or use a third-party program to shrink the currently active partition - there are loads, just Google around.

[dragonwolf13]

The included partitioning tool in Windows Disk Management will not allow you to shrink the partition currently marked as active (I'm presuming because you're trying to shrink the C: drive that this is the currently active system partition - which it will be unless you renamed things).

Thank you Souls for the help and respond. Last night before I went to bed I figured it out I was making the partition to big for the size my HDD is. I have 70GB partition for back up, so the size I was trying for was reaching in to the OS and files which is why it was stopping me. I thought I didn't have full Admin or I didn't set something right.
All so if some one has a FAT32, FAT16 or FAT file system no one can't partition using windows but if they have an NTFS file system you can use windows as NTFS is a very flexible file system.
Thank you.