Satellite L305D - Cannot partition the HDD - Vista

I have a new Satellite L305D toshiba laptop that i am unable to partition.
It runs on windows vista.
I have freed the hdd up to 74gb out of 120 gb capacity.
Recently i used paragon partition utility that reports cross linked files and hence is unable to do the partition.
The Vista shrink utility does not even display anything it appears as 0.

Hi
What type of partitions you have now exactly?
Maybe you can post a screenshot of Vista disk management utility because Im a little bit confused now. You wrote about 74GB free space and Vista doesnt show anything
I hope this can help you a little bit:
http://aps2.toshiba-tro.de/kb0/TSB7101OB0006R01.htm

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