Windows 10: Size of available shrink space does not equate Free Space

I have an HP Pavilion Notebook with a SAMSUNG 870 EVO SATA SSD 500GB 2.5” as Internal Solid State Hard Drive. I am trying to shrink my primary Partition and create 100gb of unallocated space. In the File Explorer it shows that i have 133 GB of free space but when i try to shrink it, it says that it can only shrink about 25gb. I was hoping someone could help me understand whats going on. Sincerely, martin.0

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disk partition - space to

Hi When I try to use isk Management to shrink a volume or partition so that I can make partition, I find that the size of available shrink space in mb 0, even through the partition to be shrunk has much unused space. could any one tell me how to solve
this problem?

In addition, the space shown in "Online" is more than the actual size of my C folder. do you know why

thanks

JYip 123

 

not able to shrink C: even though there is plenty of space free

Some of windows system files got corrupted so i did recover it through recovery drive. Everything was fine until i knew that Windows C: is taking up 500GB of my disk space. I tried shrinking it but it's showing " available space on drive for shrinking
: 0mb "..... Total space : 500gb. Used space : 40gb. Free space : 460gb. Why can't i shrink C: and make use of the free space ?. Is there anything wrong with recovery i've done ? Is there any SAFE WAY to
shrink it ? Please give some solutions.

P.s. : Earlier (before recovery) , C: was allocated around 200gb and was working fine.

 

Cannot shrink C: partition: Not enough space

I am trying to create a new partition on my laptop (XPS 12 9Q33, 128GB SSD) by shrinking the C:\ partition. However, despite the fact that it indicates there is enough space, it displays an error message. I have successfully done this on my desktop, but for some reason it fails on my laptop.

I am trying to shrink C:\ (which has ~25GB free) by 10GB.

I have:

• ensured there are no files at the end of the sector (disabling pagefile, etc.). See How can I shrink a Windows 10 partition? for how to do that (and you do need to do that).
  
• turned off my antivirus temporarily.
  
• disabled BitLocker encryption.
  

And it still fails. I've even tried Paragon's Partition Manager, which claims there is not enough space on the disk, which is not true.

I have even tried shrinking different sizes (down to 256MB), but to no avail (it still displays the same error).

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Any help would be appreciated.