Tuesday, 31 December 2019

Not able to partition C: Drive as per needs in Windows 7


I am trying to partition my c drive into 2 drives. My c drive has 412 GB free of 450 GB. I wish to participate as 30 GB: 382 GB. But when i try to shrink volume (by going through My Computer --> Manage --> Disk Management) i see that i can shrink around 200 GB. I believe that we cannot shrink upto certain volume due to unmovable files located.


Hence i tried to defrag the c drive using Windows defrag + http://www.piriform.com/defraggler.


Step 2: I then tried clearing restore files & also disabled hibernation. After doing second step, now it is showing that 0 GB is available for shrinking (= shrinking not possible).


What should i do that could make me happy? I know it is possible but do not remember the steps.



Answer



Windows' own disk management utility is really weird sometimes, I can relate.


Easeus offers a free partitioning tool here. I can really recommend it.


Still, use it at your own risk and always look again and again before applying a change, so you understand what you are doing right now.


I would also NOT recommend you to resize it to 30 gb. Make it 60 or even 80. I have filled 60 gigabytes and the Windows folder alone had like 25 GB!


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