Unable To Shrink 1.5Tb Drive Smaller Than 651Gb?
Sep 7, 2011
I just purchased a new HP Pavillion with a 1.5 Tb drive. I want to shrink the C:drive down to about 100Gb, and create other drive letters, with roughly 500Gb, 500Gb and 400Gb.I went into Disk Management and began the process by attempting to shrink the C: drive, but the smallest it would let me shrink it was 651Gb. I got a message saying that unmovable system files prevented it from shrinking any more.I tried defragging, but that didn't get me any more shrink.Then I tried disabling the paging file and defragging again, but that didn't gain me any more shrink.CallThey said this was outside the scope of their warranty.
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My C drive is full and started to make computer run lil bit slow.my question is if i shrink my d drive which has about 70g free can i just extend the c drive to take the un-partitioned space? I dont see why not but seen as i was on here i said id ask, i dont want to have a small usless volume if i can not add it to the c drive.
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