Solved Windows Disk Management hangs when I hit Shrink Volume.

[CProgrammer3088]

Hello,

Windows Disk Management hangs when I hit Shrink Volume.
I have never had this problem before...
Plus this is a new computer, haha.
Any ideas guys?

Specs:
1TB SATA HDD
Windows 7 Ultimate x64
HP p6823w

Thanks in advanced,
CProgrammer3088

 

[whs]

Check whether the 'Disk Defragmenter' service is set to 'manual'. If not, set it to manual.

 

[CProgrammer3088]

Thank you for the quick reply!
Yes it was on manual. Anything else I should check?

 

[whs]

Maybe some .dll is out of wack. Run a sfc /scannow in elevated command prompt. Maybe it can fix it.

 

[CProgrammer3088]

Well... I tried that and it found no errors.
Anything else?

 

[whs]

In the reliability history/reliability monitor there should be a red X for this event. What does that say - and if there is a 'view technical details', have a look at those too.

 

[CProgrammer3088]

Microsoft Management Console stopped responding and closed.

That all that happened today.

What do you think we should do?

 

[whs]

Have a look whether this corresponds to your case and can be of any use: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/322920

 

[CProgrammer3088]

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

 

[whs]

Hmm, that is a bit strange. But if it worked it is OK.

 

[CProgrammer3088]

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

 

[119baystate]

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]

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]

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]

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

YEP, I did the same thing. OUCH

 

[119baystate]

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]

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]

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

 

[119baystate]

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]

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