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Shrink Volume - Create Partition Q
I set about creating a new simple volume on a brand new laptop today. You know - they come with one giant C: drive. We want a nice, manageable C: drive for imaging, about 75 - 80GB, but 100 or 125 would do.
Ran up against the "fixed files" limit on shrinking the volume - could only claim 225GB out of 488GB.
I'm wondering- could I (temporarily) turn off the page file, delete all restore points and turn off monitoring, and check for and delete any hibernation files - defrag - and gain some significant ground? Or is a third party partitioning program the only option, as Brink has stated in his tutorials? Has anyone tried this?
(I would like to clean install, but the owner is reluctant.)
Any advice or ideas are welcome.