Catastrophic failure when trying to reduce the volume of the C drive.

I have a Windows Vista desktop (quite old, but still) I want to create a new partition of hard drive for dual boot with another OS. However, whenever I click "shrink volume" on the C drive, after that he tries to allocate, I get an error "catastrophic failure." This error provides no error code or other information as to why it appears. The drive has 99 GB free, even if the amount I want to reduce it by is less than half (although it won't let me even choose how much to reduce it by). What could be the cause of this error rather vague?

Aaron

Your best bet is to use a tool like EASEUS Partition magic third 3rd.  He manages several errors (and other things) that the built in disk management cannot (free to try btw)

http://www.EASEUS.com/partition-manager/EPM-free.html

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