Windows 10: How to Shrink my D drive?

I have 240GB space available in my D drive but it is showing only 8GB can be shirnked.

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D drive

Hi,

Based on the details you have provided us, it appears that there might be some corrupted contents on the said partition. We can also consider that this is caused by a virus.

For us to check if a certain virus is hiding your files, kindly follow the steps below:

• Type Command prompt in the search bar.
• Type-in the following command:
  
  attrib -h -r -s /s /d D:\*.*
• Press Enter to execute the command.

If you think that there is nothing important stored in it, then we suggest that you reformat your D drive so that you can use the free space for important files.

You can follow the steps below to start with the process:

• Click on the File Explorer.
• Select This PC.
• Right-click on your D drive, then click on Format.
• Follow the on-screen process to finish formatting the partition.

Let us know how it goes so that we can further assist you.

 

how to creat D drive

Hi sanjay Lenka,

I am Dave, I will help you with this.

Here are the steps to create a new D Drive partition:

Right click your Start Button, and open Disk Management from the resulting menu.

Right click your C drive and select 'Shrink'

You need to shrink the C drive partition, the amount you want to use for the D drive partition, the calculation they use is 1000 = 1GB, so for example if you want the D drive to be 50GB, set the shrink to 50000

Wait for the C drive to be shrunk

Then right click the resulting 'Unallocated Space' and select New - Simple Partition' and accept the defaults.

 

Can't shrink volume more than 22 gb

Yes, I think it should. Anyway, please delete pagefile.sys beforehand.

Run:

• bcdedit /enum all | findstr /i osdevice
  

Note down the drive letter for your OS partition -- .e.g, D:\

Assuming d:\, run:

• del d:\pagefile.sys /a
  
• del d:\windows\memory.dmp /a
  
• rd d:\$recycle.bin /s /q
  

Then, run Diskpart.

• diskpart
  
• list vol
  
• select vol # (where # is the volume number of your OS partition)
  
• shrink querymax
  

The output will show how much it can be shrunk.

To shrink the volume using Diskpart, see the article: Shrink a basic volume | Microsoft Learn: Shrink a basic volume