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36 questions linked to/from How to shrink Windows 7 boot partition with unmovable files
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How can I shrink my Windows partition further than the disk management is allowing? [duplicate]
I just bought a new computer with a 2TB hard drive that has only a single partition. I would like to divide this into at least 4 partitions, but when I try to shrink the current partition, it says the ...
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why is the size of available shrink space is only 13286 MB on 250 GB Samsung SSD with 130 GB free? [duplicate]
I want to shrink C: drive by at least 30 GB but I can't go above 13GB using Windows 10 disk Management tool when 130GB is free
Why is the available shrink space so low even when 130 GB is free?
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Can't shrink to available partition volume in Windows [duplicate]
I have 1TB HDD with 800GB free space plus a typical System Reserved partition.
I removed system files before shrinking in Disk Management since suggested shrinking size was no more than 100GB
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How to shrink volume on an SSD? [duplicate]
How do I shrink an SSD partition? When I try to shrink the volume, the "available amount of space to shrink" is zero. I did a disk defragmentation (I know it's bad), but it still comes up with zero. ...
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Partition 500Gb SSD AFTER windows 10 install [duplicate]
ok I know this is backwards but after spending half a day doing a clean install of Windows and updating drivers I'd prefer to not have to repeat the process.
I'd like to simply partition my SSD in ...
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Windows will not shrink my drive? [duplicate]
My goal is a dual boot Linux/Windows 7 PC. It already has windows 7 on drive C, on a 3Tb drive.
I first defragmented this drive, then shrink the drive c partition to the maximum allowed.
The drive ...
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How do I increase the amount of shrink size for a partition? [duplicate]
I have a 298 GB HDD and it shows that I have 179 GB free. When I try to shrink my C drive, it will only allow me to shrink 9474 Mb. How do I increase this number? I have already defrag the drive.
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How to make partition in windows 8 hard disk? [duplicate]
I have a 1TB hard disk with windows 8.1 running on it. I want to create a partition(preferably of the size around 20 GB) from my C drive to install a linux Operating System along with windows(Dual ...
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Can’t shrink C: drive beyond 941MB [duplicate]
I'm using a Surface Pro 3 running Windows 10 and I have 14GB Free on my C:\ drive. But whenever I shrink it it only says I have 941MB avalible to shrink.
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Unable to shink C: Partion [duplicate]
I have been trying to shrink my C: drive partion but currently to no avail. I am unsure about using 3rd party software to do it (such as gParted or EaseUS Partition Master Free). So I have a 1TB ...
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Why does "shrink volume" not find any empty space? [duplicate]
I was trying to shrink one drive (in order to add the space to another one), using Computer Management -> Disk Management. However, it told me that the space for shrinking is 0.
How can that be? The ...
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Reducing partition in windows 7 [duplicate]
I cant seem to reduce my c:\ drive with more than 41gb.
The partition has 650gb free space, and i am trying to turn 200gb into unallocated space for an ubuntu partition.
I use the windows partition ...
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How can I shrink a Windows 10 partition?
I use a big single partition on a 1TB platter drive with Windows 10. I would like to shrink the partition down so that I can mirror the drive to a smaller but faster 256GB SSD.
I bought the drive ...
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How do you defragment the MFT on an NTFS disk?
A while ago, I nearly filled my hard drive, much more than the recommended maximum of 85% of capacity. I believe that NTFS started storing files in the space reserved for the Master File Table (MFT) ...
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How can I increase my shrink space in disk management?
I have a 900GB HDD, but for some reason it will only allow me to shrink like 2500MB of it. In the past, I could shrink to my desired size, but for some reason it is giving me a problem now. I have ...
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