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Shrinking my transaction logs

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Good day,

I have some problems regarding my Hard disk space for my logs in SQL Server 2005. When I try shrinking the database it returns an error not letting me to do anything about the size of the file.
Is there any way that I can delete the used transaction logs in my LOG File to free some disk space that I need. I cannot delete or add any new files on my database, because the transaction log file is full.
My database is set AUTO GROW with a limited size on the hard disk. I already have 160GB for the log files but it is still not enough for the Logs.
Can you guys give me suggestions regarding my problem, I have searched about this on other threads but it seems to me that some of the solutions given was not able to help me solve my problem.
I just need to minimize the size of the LOG so I can start using my database agin.

I tried changing the Restore option to SIMPLE but it returns an error Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 3023.

Thanks In Advance.
Jul 30 '07 #1
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