Windows 10: Trying to create a new partition in my free space but Windows suggests a surprisingly small...

I've got 75GB of free space on my SSD. I wanted to create a partition maybe 40GB in size, and install Linux onto it. The trouble is, in disk management, Windows suggests that roughly 23GB is the maximum "shrinkable" space. why? Why so small?

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W7 Hard drive partition issue

to get rid of that 100 meg windows partition that setup creates for you on a new install on a blank hdd:

- press shift+f10 when on the partition management screen in setup <-- this opens a command prompt
- diskpart <-- start the windows command line partition management tool
- list disk <--- list the installed hdds in this computer for the next step
- select disk 0 <- might have to replace 0 with the number of the correct disk
- clean <-- this will erase all data on the disk you selected one step up- dont use the wrong disk!
- create partition primary <- creates a primary partition taking up all space on the drive, adjust the command if necessary
- exit, exit to exit diskpart and the command prompt
- click refresh in partition manager and select your newly created partition and install to that

 

how to create partition in windows 10

hey,

To create a partition from unpartitioned space follow these steps:

• Right click This PC and select Manage
• Open Disk Management
• Select the disk from which you want to make a partition.
• Right click the Un-partitioned space in the bottom pane and select new Simple volume.
• Enter the size and click next and you are done.

Hope this helps.

 

Partition space

You're not understanding this. Unallocated space is NOT equal as (partitioned) empty space.

Unallocated space means empty RAW sectors on HDD. Empty space means an already allocated file system (either FAT32 or NTFS or any other) that is not occupied by any data.

So in your case, as DanTheBanjoman already suggested, don't try to shrink "unallocated space", extend the main (C*Smile partition instead. You can't shrink something that doesn't exist (unallocated space), but you can extend the existing partition over unallocated space.
So, just select the C: partition and extend it further. Program should automatically allow you to do that. I'm not using Partition Magic, but i usually done this with either:
MiniTool Partition Wizard Free - manage and resize disk partitions (also for 64bit OS!)

or

EaseUS Partition Master - manage disk partitions (only for 32bit OS!)