Partition or Volume - Shrink

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  1. Posts : 71,959
    64-bit Windows 11 Pro for Workstations
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       #180

    Hello Pragnesh,

    Sometimes it may take few moments for the DISKPART prompt to appear.

    Especially if you have Windows set to turn off idle hard drives while it waits for them to spin back up first.

    Hard Drive - Turn Off Hard Disk After Idle or Never

    EDIT: Great news.
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  2. Posts : 173
    Windows 7 Professional 32 Bit
       #181

    Thanks.

    By the way, would you recommend me shrinking and then partitioning my hard drive via Windows or should I do it while installing Ubuntu and the one it provides for partitioning. I already have Windows 7 installed and I am trying to dual boot it with Ubuntu.
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  3. Posts : 71,959
    64-bit Windows 11 Pro for Workstations
    Thread Starter
       #182

    I'm afraid that I'll be of no help with Ubuntu, but you might great a new thread in the Installation & Setup forum area for this to see what we can do to help.
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  4. Posts : 2
    Windows 7 Home Premium x64
       #183

    Shrinking C:


    Hey I have just finished building my PC and am wanting to create a partition to install my game files etc onto. I've never done partitioning before but the plan is to have my operating system on one partition say 50GB and the remaining as a Data drive for installing my games. Is this the right Idea? and is it safe to shrink a volume that contains System files? I find the help file in computer management difficult to understand.

    I've attached a screenshot of what I see in disk management below. I've noticed I don't have the system reserved partition of 100mb that everybody else seems to have. is it ok to just go ahead and shrink the C: drive despite this?
    Attached Thumbnails Attached Thumbnails Partition or Volume - Shrink-untitled.png  
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  5. Posts : 19,383
    Windows 10 Pro x64 ; Xubuntu x64
       #184

    Yes, its perfectly OK. You can go head and shrink the C: without any trouble.

    Regards,
    Golden
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  6. Posts : 2
    Windows 7 Home Premium x64
       #185

    Cool thanks. And what size roughly do you think I should keep for that C drive?
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  7. Posts : 71,959
    64-bit Windows 11 Pro for Workstations
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       #186

    Hello TheNothingNZ, and welcome to Seven Forums.

    It depends on how much you plan on installing and saving to it, but the more the better since this is your OS partition. :)
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  8. Posts : 8
    Windows 7 x64
       #187

    Hi Guys,

    I did a shrink volume on my external 3tb HDD yesterday.
    Here are the details...
    Shrinked 1tb of space
    Now i have 3 spaces in diskmgmt,
    I: (1.92TB)
    Unallocated (252gig): I named this, so it is called E: now.
    Unallocated (756gig)

    So my question is, i have been trying to extend E: to use up the 756gig, so that i will have 2 partitions of 1.92tb and 1tb. But the option to extend in E: is greyed out.

    Can anyone advice me where did i go wrong?
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  9. Posts : 71,959
    64-bit Windows 11 Pro for Workstations
    Thread Starter
       #188

    Hello Elvin, and welcome to Seven Forums.

    Please go and post a screenshot showing this in your Disk Management before we continue so we can be accurate. :)

    Disk Management - Post a Screen Capture Image
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  10. Posts : 8
    Windows 7 x64
       #189

    Thanks Brink.

    I am not at that computer right now, but i illustrated how it looks like.

    The Extend Option on E: is greyed out.
    Attached Thumbnails Attached Thumbnails Partition or Volume - Shrink-asd.jpg  
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