Windows Disk Management hangs when I hit Shrink Volume.

CProgrammer3088 · 14 Jul 2012

Note to self!!! always make sure you put SYSTEM back to active after you do this!

119baystate · 17 Mar 2015

CProgrammer3088 said:

Well... that didn't work.

But I did find a fix!

Step 1: right click your partition.
Step 2: Mark as active
Step 3: hit yes.

And done

Thanks,
CProgrammer3088

I have apparently stumbled onto this problem as well, but marking the drive as ACTIVE did not help. I am having trouble shrinking the partition. What else to do?

119baystate · 17 Mar 2015

119baystate said:

CProgrammer3088 said:

Well... that didn't work.

But I did find a fix!

Step 1: right click your partition.
Step 2: Mark as active
Step 3: hit yes.

And done

Thanks,
CProgrammer3088

I have apparently stumbled onto this problem as well, but marking the drive as ACTIVE did not help. I am having trouble shrinking the partition. What else to do?

I stand corrected it did work, but the system partition only shrunk by 15 Gb when there is over 160 Gb free space available. What is the issue now? Should I run the DEFRAG to see if files are UNMOVEABLE?

ignatzatsonic · 17 Mar 2015

Windows Disk Management has certain limitations on what it will let you do.

You can try a more advanced program, such as Partition Wizard; a free download.

119baystate · 17 Mar 2015

CProgrammer3088 said:

Note to self!!! always make sure you put SYSTEM back to active after you do this!

YEP, I did the same thing. OUCH

119baystate · 17 Mar 2015

ignatzatsonic said:

Windows Disk Management has certain limitations on what it will let you do.

You can try a more advanced program, such as Partition Wizard; a free download.

YEP, I have PARTITION WIZARD. It failed to shrink the volume as well. I am currently DEFRAGGING & will attempt to shrink further afterwards.

I will report back.

119baystate · 17 Mar 2015

119baystate said:

ignatzatsonic said:

Windows Disk Management has certain limitations on what it will let you do.

You can try a more advanced program, such as Partition Wizard; a free download.

YEP, I have PARTITION WIZARD. It failed to shrink the volume as well. I am currently DEFRAGGING & will attempt to shrink further afterwards.

I will report back.

I performed a DEFRAG & it rreports back 0% fragmentation. I then attempted another SHRINK volume & I cannot SHRINK any further. PARTITION WIZARD reports 155Gb is still free.

Any suggestions?

whs · 17 Mar 2015

If PW cannot shrink the partition, it must be an unusually situation. Is that the OS partition or a data partition ?

119baystate · 17 Mar 2015

119baystate said:

ignatzatsonic said:

Windows Disk Management has certain limitations on what it will let you do.

You can try a more advanced program, such as Partition Wizard; a free download.

YEP, I have PARTITION WIZARD. It failed to shrink the volume as well. I am currently DEFRAGGING & will attempt to shrink further afterwards.

I will report back.

I performed a DEFRAG & it rreports back 0% fragmentation. I then attempted another SHRINK volume & I cannot SHRINK any further. PARTITION WIZARD reports 155Gb is still free.

Any suggestions?

I was able to shrink the partition by 1st booting from a rescue disk & then run PARTITION WIZARD from a USB flash drive.

Why is this the case? I could swear that I have reduced system partitions in the past without going through this extra hurdle. Also, I noticed PARTITION left 1Mb unallocated space at the beginning & end of the disk. I cannot get rid of those. Why is that?

CProgrammer3088 · 17 Mar 2015

Glad to hear that it is working for you, that is quite strange about the 1MB of unallocated.
I don't think you should worry about it (since it is so small of space) :)

Thanks,
CProgrammer3088