Hard Disc Partition problem.

[Suthar_Ashok]

Hello All,

I am facing a difficulty with partitioning my C drive. It is not being shrinked below 350 GB. I am attaching two screenshots of my PC. 

Let me know what I am doing wrong.

[DavidPK]

Hi,

Have you tried turning off system restore and the Page file before shrinking the existing partition - you usually get this issue with unmovable files.

Regards,

DP-K

[DavidPK]

Hi,

Have you tried turning off system restore and the Page file before shrinking the existing partition - you usually get this issue with unmovable files.

Regards,

DP-K

[Suthar_Ashok]

Hi,

Thanks for replying. 🙂

No, I haven't tried with that. So will you plase elaborate this process?

TIA.

[DavidPK · Accepted solution]

Hi,

You're welcome

I'd suggest trying the options below, in the order listed.

Disable Fast Start-up:

Open Settings and select System.  Select Power and sleep, then click on Additional power settings - in the following window, click on 'Choose what the power button does' in the left hand pane.

In the subsequent window, first click on 'Change settings that are currently unavailable' ( near the top of the Window ) and then remove the checkmark from the box against 'Turn on fast start-up (recommended)'.  Click the Save Settings button, then close any open windows.

Restart the notebook and check if you can now shrink the C partition to the required size.

To turn off System Restore:

Open windows Control Panel and in the top right, next to View by: select 'Large Icons'.  From the new layout, select the System entry and then select System Protection in the left hand pane.  Left click Local Disk C to highlight the entry and then click on Configure.  Fill in the radio button next to 'Disable system protection, the click Apply and Ok to save the change.

Restart the notebook and check if you can now shrink the C partition to the required size.

If it still doesn't shrink the C partition to the required size then try temporarly turning off the pagefile as follows.

To turn off the pagefile:

Open windows Control Panel, select the System entry and then select Advanced System Settings in the left hand pane.  Left click Local Disk C to highlight the entry and then click on Configure.  Under Performance, select the Settings button.  In the following window, select the Advanced tab and under the sub-heading 'Virtual Memory', select the Change button.  Uncheck 'Automatically manage paging file size for all drives' and then fill in the radio button against 'No paging file'.  Click Ok in this window and then Apply and Ok in the previous window.

Restart the notebook and try shrinking the C partition again.

Note:  When you've finished, I'd recommend re-enabling all the above options again, but definetely re-enable the pagefile ( just chose the option for Windows to automatically manage the size ).

Regards,

DP-K