Disk Management Problem

praagar · 03 Oct 2010

Hi,

I bought my toshiba l505-s5998 model last dec. I was planning to shrink the my c:\ location as its 320GB and i want to have an another drive with 100GB space shrinked from the c:\ drive.

But when i tried doing it using diskmgmt.msc it show me only 1008MB available though i have 185 GB of free Space. How do i solve this issue. I am not able to see the actual free space in the diskmanagement application.

I even tried to do using the cmd prompt but was unsuccesful to do it.

Can any one guide me how to resolve this issue and shrink my drive.

Thanks,
Prateek Agarwal

Bare Foot Kid · 03 Oct 2010

Hello praagar, welcome to Seven Forums!

Before we make any specific recommendations will you please post a snip/screen-shot of the entire disk management drive map with a full description as to which drive/partition is which, so we can see what you have going on as there may be a fairly simple way to resolve the situation.

In the Windows start menu right click computer and click manage, in the left pane of the "Computer Management" window that opens click disk management and post a snip of that.

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praagar · 03 Oct 2010

Hi Bare Foot Kid,

I am attaching the Screen shot with few desc and question with in the screen shot. Hope that should make my question pretty clear.

1.) My Computer

2) Diskmgmt.msc

3) Disk management showing wrong available space.

Disk Management Problem-diskmgmt_main.png

4) I even tried cmd prompt. But got error even in that. The error is not displayed in the screen shot.

Thanks,
Prateek Agarwal

Bare Foot Kid · 03 Oct 2010

Hello again.

Have a look at Option One of this tutorial at the link below to see if the Partition Wizard boot CD program is able to shrink the partition.

We have had no errors with this program so far but as always, be sure to make backups of anything you would not want to lose before you attempt the shrink.

Partition Wizard : Use the Bootable CD

gregrocker · 03 Oct 2010

If PW CD can't shrink it enough, try Perfect Disk 10 trial version. First defrag for compactness, then rightclick C to Offline Defrag>System Files which will move the files in the way. Back up your data first.

karlsnooks · 03 Oct 2010

Praagar,

You've received excellent advice as to how to solve your problem.

I can add nothing there.

The trouble when you try to shrink using Win 7 is that Win 7 likes to put some of its system information at the end of a partition and doesn't want to move them.

PartitionWizard and PerfectDisk, when run offline, aren't hampered by MS's preconceived ideas.

youllbelost · 03 Oct 2010

You must try a Third Party Software
Try Acronis Partition Expert or Paragon Partition manager

SJ.

karlsnooks · 03 Oct 2010

Lost,
Actually, he as received some excellent and working solutions.

youllbelost · 03 Oct 2010

karlsnooks said:

Lost,
Actually, he as received some excellent and working solutions.

He didnt replied ,, so...

praagar · 03 Oct 2010

Hi,

Ya i did receive. But the problem is still there.

Using Partition Wizard - Bootable i encounter an error.

Error
Failed to exec the following cmd.

Resize Partition DiskIndex:0 Partition Index : 2
New Straight LBA:4096575
New Partition Size : 497195685 safemode:1

Error Code : 36

Minitool partition wizard detecting that file system of the partition have errors. Please use "Check file system" function to fix it first.