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How do I increase available shrink space on C?
I just bought a new Alienware m18x computer, and it's partitioned into three sections, as seen in this screenshot. The thing is, I want to split it into 4 partitions: OS (150GB), Data (250GB), DATA2 (300GB), DATA3 (300GB), though if DATA2 and DATA3 were one partition, that would be fine.
However, when I go into Disk Management's "Shrink Volume..." option, it says I can only shrink it by 464GB (464394MB), even after a defrag. This would make OS about 500GB in size, which is much too big. What's odd to me is, since this is brand new computer and there's only 30- or 40-some GB of data on there, is that I can't shrink it down smaller.
Do I have to reformat to get these partitions that I want? I ask this because I can't seem to find a Windows serial key that came with the computer (only the disk) so I only want to do this if absolutely necessary. And if I don't have to reformat, how do I shrink the OS partition to ~150GB? Edit: I *did* manage to find the location of the product key, so I can reformat if necessary. Would still like to avoid this, though.
Note: I have seen this thread and searched Google a bit, but I haven't found any solutions to this particular predicament.