I have one 1TB HDD on my desktop. It has 3 primary partitions:
C: (Boot, Contains Windows)
D: (Backup Disk)
E: (Another Backup Disk)
Now, I wanted to have another partition for my Linux, so I decided to shrink the volume D:. Using Windows Disk Management, I successfully shrink the volume...
I have 33gb free in my C:, which is main system volume. I want to shrink it down but when i try to do so it shows 0mb available to shrink.
I disabled pagefile on C: and moved to D:, also i deleted shadow copies and restore files and disabled hibernate option so that i can remove hibernate.sys....
I just did a factory recovery now i want to partition my HDD into different partitions heres a pic of my HDD
http://i1102.photobucket.com/albums/g446/tiptop2/HDD.jpg
But when i go into Disk management and right click my hdd and shrink volume i get this...
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
All right so I was doing the tutorial thing for dual-boot Windows 7 and Windows XP.
https://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/2672-partition-volume-shrink.html
I was shrinking the volume (500gigs or so in use, 400 available, shrinking that 400), and had a program running. Well the program had an...