How "long" does it take for Disk Management take to "shrink" a disk?


  1. Mike Lynch
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    How "long" does it take for Disk Management to "shrink" a disk?


    Minutes, hours, about how long?

    It's supposed to be "shrinking" about 150GBs.

    Seems like it just won't quit.
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  3. SIW2
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    Can take a while. Depends how much data has to be moved and the speed of the disk. Third party partition managers are more useful for that.
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  4. Mike Lynch
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    Thank you!

    I cancelled and used MiniTool and its done.

    Best regards,

    Mike
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