Boot camp cannot drag disk space divider

I am trying to install windows 7 on my MBA mid-11, with Boot Camp Assistent running on Mavricks.
Everything is set: one partition, Windows usb drive built by boot camp. But right at the step of dragging divider to set the disk space for windows, I cannot drag it. It only moves between 19 and 20G, and sometimes even moves to the opposite direction of my dragging. Tested trackpad three-finger gesture, worked fine on file dragging.
It's rather weird this time as I have installed win 7 once with 25G space. but I found it too small and would like to redo it with 30G space. The disk (with only the journaled MAC partition) has 38G left as indicated by the disk utility. The previous installation was removed through boot camp as well.
I don't know what to make of it.
Any idea? Thanks.

yes it would, no matter if it is bootcamp or any other partition, it will still take up storage on the startup disk.
for your reference, please see this;
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-57600802-263/options-for-checking-free-hard -drive-space-in-os-x/

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