Partition or Volume - Shrink

hi there,

I also have problem in shrinking my partition. I went through all the pages in this topic but still not sure of what I can do.

here is the image of my hard drive



my laptop is TOSHIBA L630, 500GB hard drive, WINDOWS 7-64bit
now I have some question to ask you guys about
1. I have 500gb hard drive but why it only shows 465.75 GB, I just wonder where is the other?
2. I want to shrink my C to around 80GB, but I don't know how to do it. as u can see in the picture, the unallocated there is the maximum GB that I can shrink
3. about the 2 other partition: the 1.46GB and 10Gb both ard hidden partition, what can I do with them, can I format one of them? when I click on the 10Gb there is only one option that I can do is to delete it.

Hi balabala

A1)Take a look here:
Hard Drive Size Capacities Calculator
500 = 465.66.

A2) As you are at maximum leave alone.

A3) The 1.46g & 10g partitions, are your Recovery partitions.

thank you THEOG and WHS for ur help, I finally shrinked the C to 80gb and created 2 more partitions.
thanks hipsssssssssss

my laptop is Dell Inspiron 15R, 500GB hard drive, 64bit
I have some question to ask you
1. I have 500gb hard drive with which I was able to create a new drive E: with 100 GB space
2. I want to shrink my C to around 80GB, currently it is 350 GB and E drive is 100 GB.
When I try to shrink the C drive, it allows me to create an unallocated space of only 129GB but still it does not allow me to create a new volume for this unallocated space,
Also I see a virtual Drive Q : which I am unable to delete

Please help me out on this

Thanks,

But can you please elaborate on reboot so that the Q drive disappear.I am new to all this and just want your guidance.

No..The virtual Drive is still there after reboot.

Also for the partition tool, Do we need to back up the data before using it?
because I do not have my OS CD to install it again