L505-S6946 HDD PARTITIONS @ WINDOWS VISTA

Hi everyone i need some help or plz correct me if im wrong.
Im using a L505-S6946 Satellite Toshiba, it came with vista home with only 1 partition, with the manage computer and shrink option (in the Disk Managment), i split in 2 partitions, but my problem is why de first partition where is vistas installed, boot partition, system. Why i cant modify (reduce or shrink) to less than 160gb ?
For example if a want my frist partition (where vistas will be installed) to be 80 gb, and a second partition for data storage, its this posible? HOW? with a 3rd app? I think its posible cause i installed vistas in machines with 80GB HDD.
All the help will be apprecited
My bad.. sorry for my english.
Thx
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Satellite L505-S6946
Why i cant modify (reduce or shrink) to less than 160gb ?
It's because of some immovable files. See Additional considerations at this web page for details.
Shrink a Simple or Spanned Volume
It's easiest to use a third party manager. I used this free one.
EASEUS Partition Master
-Jerry

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Checked these ?
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