My C drive has lot space, nearly 170 GB free space. I do want to shrink C drive, and allocate that memory to another drive to keep files. To do so I am using shrink volume option in device management window. When I clicked on Shrink volume it showing 0 MB is allowed to shrink, even though it has lot of memory unused. Please help.
Device Management Shrink Volume is not working on C drive
- Thread starter chaitu87
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Hello, check this out please : http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/95398-disk-management-shrink-partition.html
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- Manufacturer/Model
- Emachine ET 1161-05
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- AMD Athlon 64 LE-1640
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- eMachines MCP61PM-GM (Socket AM2 )
- Memory
- 2.00 GB Dual-Channel DDR2 @ 387MHz (6-6-6-18)
- Graphics card(s)
- Acer E181H (1280x768@60Hz) 128MB GeForce 6150SE nForce 430 (
- Sound Card
- Realtek High Definition Audio
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- Name Acer E181H on NVIDIA GeForce 6150SE nForce 430
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- 1280x768 pixels
- Hard Drives
- ST316081 5AS SCSI Disk Device
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Excellent Yard Dog. I did a bunch of searching in the windows help file trying to find a possible solution and ended up with nothing. I hope this works.
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- Operating System
- Vista Home Premium 64 bit SP2
- Manufacturer/Model
- Cyberpower
- CPU
- Intel Quad CPU Q6700 2.67 GHZ
- Motherboard
- NVIDIA 780i
- Memory
- 4 GB
- Graphics card(s)
- MSI GTX 560 TI Twin Frozr
- Sound Card
- Sound Blaster SB Audigy
- Monitor(s) Displays
- Viewsonic VG2436
- Screen Resolution
- 1920x1080p
- Hard Drives
- Samsung HD 105SI WDC WD20
- Case
- Apevia XJupiter
- Cooling
- air
- Mouse
- Logitech MX 600
- Keyboard
- Logitech MX 3200
- Internet Speed
- 30 Mbps
Tell ya what, that Tutorial section is a master file of fixes..
My Computer
System One
-
- Manufacturer/Model
- Emachine ET 1161-05
- CPU
- AMD Athlon 64 LE-1640
- Motherboard
- eMachines MCP61PM-GM (Socket AM2 )
- Memory
- 2.00 GB Dual-Channel DDR2 @ 387MHz (6-6-6-18)
- Graphics card(s)
- Acer E181H (1280x768@60Hz) 128MB GeForce 6150SE nForce 430 (
- Sound Card
- Realtek High Definition Audio
- Monitor(s) Displays
- Name Acer E181H on NVIDIA GeForce 6150SE nForce 430
- Screen Resolution
- 1280x768 pixels
- Hard Drives
- ST316081 5AS SCSI Disk Device
- PSU
- MCP61PM-GM 9000 NVIDIA Chipset Model MCP61 Chipset Revisio
- Case
- Tower
- Cooling
- Fan Speed 1247 RPM
- Mouse
- PS/2 Compatible Mouse
- Keyboard
- Standard PS/2 Keyboard
- Internet Speed
- http://www.speedtest.net/result/1538974261.png
Being relatively new the forum, I didn't even think of the Tutorials. Thanks.
My Computer
System One
-
- Operating System
- Vista Home Premium 64 bit SP2
- Manufacturer/Model
- Cyberpower
- CPU
- Intel Quad CPU Q6700 2.67 GHZ
- Motherboard
- NVIDIA 780i
- Memory
- 4 GB
- Graphics card(s)
- MSI GTX 560 TI Twin Frozr
- Sound Card
- Sound Blaster SB Audigy
- Monitor(s) Displays
- Viewsonic VG2436
- Screen Resolution
- 1920x1080p
- Hard Drives
- Samsung HD 105SI WDC WD20
- Case
- Apevia XJupiter
- Cooling
- air
- Mouse
- Logitech MX 600
- Keyboard
- Logitech MX 3200
- Internet Speed
- 30 Mbps
You will not be able to shrink C:\ with Disk Management because the MFT (master file table) is sitting high up in the partition and Disk Management cannot move it.
What you need is the bootable CD of Partition Wizard (last entry on the webpage). Burn this .iso to CD and load it from the CD reader (change the BIOS boot sequence). That program can move the MFT and you can shrink as much as there is free space. I would, however, not make C:\ too small - maybe 60 to 80GB.
Btw. You do not "allocate memory to another drive". You allocate disk space to another partition. Memory is RAM and a drive is a physical disk.
What you need is the bootable CD of Partition Wizard (last entry on the webpage). Burn this .iso to CD and load it from the CD reader (change the BIOS boot sequence). That program can move the MFT and you can shrink as much as there is free space. I would, however, not make C:\ too small - maybe 60 to 80GB.
Btw. You do not "allocate memory to another drive". You allocate disk space to another partition. Memory is RAM and a drive is a physical disk.
My Computer
System One
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- Manufacturer/Model
- Dell
- CPU
- Q6600
- Memory
- 4GB
- Monitor(s) Displays
- HP w2207h
- Hard Drives
- 2x250GB HDDs 1x60GB OCZ SSD 6 external disks 60 to 640GBs
- Other Info
- Also 1xHP desktop, 1xHP laptop, 1xGateway laptop
Your most welcome. We all do our best to assist on issues.
My Computer
System One
-
- Manufacturer/Model
- Emachine ET 1161-05
- CPU
- AMD Athlon 64 LE-1640
- Motherboard
- eMachines MCP61PM-GM (Socket AM2 )
- Memory
- 2.00 GB Dual-Channel DDR2 @ 387MHz (6-6-6-18)
- Graphics card(s)
- Acer E181H (1280x768@60Hz) 128MB GeForce 6150SE nForce 430 (
- Sound Card
- Realtek High Definition Audio
- Monitor(s) Displays
- Name Acer E181H on NVIDIA GeForce 6150SE nForce 430
- Screen Resolution
- 1280x768 pixels
- Hard Drives
- ST316081 5AS SCSI Disk Device
- PSU
- MCP61PM-GM 9000 NVIDIA Chipset Model MCP61 Chipset Revisio
- Case
- Tower
- Cooling
- Fan Speed 1247 RPM
- Mouse
- PS/2 Compatible Mouse
- Keyboard
- Standard PS/2 Keyboard
- Internet Speed
- http://www.speedtest.net/result/1538974261.png