Shrink my windows partition

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Was this reply helpful? Yes No. Sorry this didn't help. Thanks for your feedback. The first and last partition show as unallocated and do not even show up under the Windows Disk Management utility. See below for my Disk Management information: It only shows 4 partitions, not 7, for some reason unknown. This is confusing to me. My goal is to merge partitions so I only have one primary C: volume that is accessed by default.

Is it possible to merge all of the unallocated volumes as well as the Data D: drive into the OS C: volume? And what is the MB Recovery partition used for? It shows it as being empty. I can not extend the C: volume using Disk Management because I tested and I shrunk Volume D: it ends up creating unallocated volumes that cant be extended on to the C: volume.

I am afraid to use the third party Easus Partition master as it seems like it may create even more unallocated and unuseable volumes. Many users report that they can't shrink volume Windows 10 for various reasons. In this post, MiniTool shows you how to solve this problem with two methods. Both the methods can work well and you can choose between them.

Sometimes, you may need to shrink a volume to make free space for other use. You open the Disk Management, right-click a partition, and then choose Shrink Volume. If everything goes well, you will get the following picture:.

Then, you just need to enter the amount of space to shrink and then click Shrink button. After that, your partition can be shrunk successfully. However, many users report that they can't shrink volume Windows Read on to get to know what symptoms this issue will have. The Shrink button in two places can be greyed out. Only needs three steps and your trouble will disappear. Click to tweet. You can see the MiniTool Partition Wizard is very convenient.

It can produce more than one unallocated space and the location is not limited, so you can make full use of the space it separates. In Disk Management, the feature to shrink partition named Shrink Volume. Now, to shrink Windows partition Windows 10, the detailed steps will be shown below. Choose Disk Management from Storage. And then your hard disk condition will be listed. After right-clicking on the target partition, you will get a pop-up menu.

Now choose Shrink Volume from the pop-up menu. Windows checks the volume to see how much it can be shrunk. The amount listed here is MB. The computer busies itself with shrinking the volume. When the operation is completed, you will see the unallocated space appear right behind the target partition in the Disk Management console.

The job is finished successfully. But you should know that the built-in utility has a defect that it does not allow shrinking partition from the forward to the backward, so the new unallocated space will only appear on the right side of the partition which you want to shrink.