Can't create a new partition

Hi,
I want to create a new partition as I have done before a few times.
Now, the problem is, that I get an error message, when I'm trying to create one.
Unfortunetally the error message is in German, so I try to translate it:
"Partitioning failed
During partitioning is occurred an error:
MediaKit reports: System has for the desired process not enough memory"
You can see the screenshot under following link:
http://www.apfeltalk.de/forum/partitionen-zusammenf-hren-t174556.html
The point is: I have 2 GB RAM and more than 100 GB on my harddisc free!
Probably this problem occured with Mac OS X 10.5.5.
Does anybody know an solution?
How can I contact Apple to inform them about this problem and get some help?!
Best regards
Stefano

Your translation is probably a little off and rather than meaning there's not enough RAM it means there's not enough contiguous hard drive space to make a partition of that size. I'm assuming that you are trying to partition a drive that already has data on it. If I am right, before the drive can be partitioned, it has to be defragmented so that the drive has no data in a group of tracks equal to the size you requested. It is possible to request a partition size that looks like it should fit but there's one or more files that cannot be moved out to make space for it. That, is what I think has happened to you.
If I am right you can try defragging your hard drive with a program dedicated to defragmenting and optimizing. Some people have had success doing this and others have used such a program and still couldn't partition their drive. You can clone the drive to another hard drive (SuperDuper! and CarbonCopyCloner are two good cloning programs) and then turn around and clone right back to original. This will work because as the files are copied to the target drive they will all be placed in contiguous sectors so the drive will be completely defragmented. Or you can try making a smaller partition.

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