My hard drive doesn't seem to want me to shrink my partition. I want an 80GB section cut out (of a total of 788GB free) and it won't let me.
Here's a video, it's too hard to explain in words.
Can anyone help? I'd like to have a partition for installing OSs to test.
~GoodGuy17
Re: Cannot Shrink Partition?
Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2012 8:24 pm
by MrAksel
Try defragmenting it. I don't think you can shrink the partition if it has any data stored in the section you want to cut off.
Re: Cannot Shrink Partition?
Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2012 9:00 pm
by GoodGuy17
Sorry, didn't work.
I'll probably end up buying a new one, because I need a 7200RPM one in anyways. But I'd like to be sure that this partition cannot be shrunk in any way before I toss it.
Re: Cannot Shrink Partition?
Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2012 9:48 pm
by Dummy1912
did you ever try the program call true image 11 or 12
he can resize that in easy.
but be careful i don't want you to lose any data.
i did it before but my drive was empty :lol:
Use EASEUS Partition Master.
That should work for you as it worked for me lol.
Re: Cannot Shrink Partition?
Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2012 5:58 pm
by MrAksel
Boot from Ubuntu :? GParted is the best partition manager by far in my opinion (maybe because I just like Ubuntu :lol:)
Re: Cannot Shrink Partition?
Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2012 2:08 pm
by mikethedj4
I had this problem before, and the only way I could fix it was I booted to Linux from my flash drive (I used Ubuntu, but you can use whatever distro suits you best) and I opened up Disk Utility and had to use that. Windows Disk Management tool sucks anyway. Disk Utility works a whole lot better so give it a try, and if you have the same problem simply reply, and we'll do our best to help.
