Shrinking Volume


  1. Posts : 44
    Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit
       #1

    Shrinking Volume


    Today I defragmented hdd have 298 gb drive with 262 gb free. Reebooted and went to disk management to shrink drive and free up about 50 gb. When I try to shrink it is allowing a maximum of 662 mb. What must I do to increase this amount.

    Henry
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  2. Posts : 71,977
    64-bit Windows 11 Pro for Workstations
       #2

    Hello Henry,

    Could you post some screenshots of Disk Management showing this? It may help determine what is happening.

    Does the drive that you are trying to shrink have any VHD files from a virtual machine on it, page file, or system protection turned on for it? If so, then they would allocate space on the drive not allowing it to be free space available to shrink from.
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  3. Posts : 968
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64
       #3

    I looks like disk management wont allow any more than that you will have to use a partitioning program that allows you to resize a partition during boot mode to whatever size you what. I would first though make sure you have a good image backup of your system. To go about doing this I would use a program like Macrium:
    Imaging with free Macrium
    and to shrink your volume follow this guide:
    Partition or Volume - Shrink
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  4. Posts : 44
    Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit
    Thread Starter
       #4

    Will try to send screenshot. As for resizing, I do have parted magic on cd. Problem is I don't have backup media, just a couple of 4 gb flash drives.

    Henry
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  5. Posts : 44
    Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit
    Thread Starter
       #5

    See if this shot got thru.

    Henry
    Attached Thumbnails Attached Thumbnails Shrinking Volume-capture-1.png  
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  6. Posts : 44
    Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit
    Thread Starter
       #6

    Turned off system protection, and other services. Everthing back to normal. Thanks for all your replies.

    Henry
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  7. Posts : 968
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64
       #7

    Glad you got it worked out..:)
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  8. Posts : 71,977
    64-bit Windows 11 Pro for Workstations
       #8

    That's great news Henry. Thank you for posting back with your results. :)
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