Your are a complete star rlirpa, I did slect the volume I wanted to shrink, the GParted program was very easy to use, unfortunately when I selected the relevant partition to be resized it won't allow me, it's said I had to clone the disk and then run CHKDSK /F I already ran the Chkdsk /f command it didn't seem to fix the issue Anyhow I've found a recovery partition and have managed to restore Vista, so I will see if everything is fixed now (hopefully)

Some of the partition programs were very complicated talking about disk, head, cylinders. I was at lost there, and didn't want to screw it up - so I played it safe "as stated above"

Thank you very much for your support