'Access denied' while partitioning on Vista

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Published on 2010-05-28T06:09:59Z Indexed on 2010/05/28 6:12 UTC
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I went to Disk Management and right-click C drive to shrink.

It started the process and after long time passed, 'Access denied' error came out.

I tried a couple of times, but all are the same result.

Could anyone help me how to partition C drive on Vista please?

Thanks in advance.

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