Windows 10: Unable to find unallocated disk space after shrinking volume.

Winter. · Jul 9, 2019

Alright, I've never posted here so forgive me if this is kind of a mess lol,

I was trying to shrink my Windows (C so I could make a separate partition, I didn't exactly know what I was doing at the time so I think I ended up shrinking quite a bit of it, but I'm not sure how much I shrunk it but I can tell it was a lot, I think I had around 500 or 600 GB? Anyways, while I was shrinking it, my PC froze or locked up or something, so I had to press the reset button on my PC, now I can't find the unallocated disk space, I've tried messing around with it for hours but I can't figure out how to get it back or find it anywhere.

I never created a restore point or anything so I can't just hit the undo button unfortunately, I should have done that but I was dumb and didn't.

Any help would be appreciated, thank you.

:)

UserTen · Jul 9, 2019

Unable to Use Unallocated Space to Extend Partition

Don't worry about it. Macrium will take care of it in step 4.
Even though it looks too much but if you do exactly what I suggested, you'll be up and running within 20Minutes at most.
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Okay...thanks. Will look at it tomorrow. FYI, I figured out how to get that unformatted G partition back into D.

In Disk Management, I right clicked G and selected "Delete Volume." That rendered the partition as unallocated. I was then able to extend D with that space.

Thanks again for all of the help!

KrishnaDarbha · Jul 9, 2019

Unable to shrink C: drive less that 480GB in Disk management on Windows 10.

Hello Lex,

Thank you for posting on Microsoft Community. We regret the inconvenience caused and will assist you in resolving the issue.

Before assisting further, I would like to ask you few questions:

a. What happens when you try shrinking
C: drive below 500 GB, do you get any error message/error code?

To create a partition or volume (the two terms are often used interchangeably) on a hard disk, you must be logged in as an administrator, and there must be either unallocated disk space or free space within an extended partition on the hard disk.

The disk space of minimum 4GB and maximum of 8GB should be dedicated to Windows 10 installation files & folders on the drive in which the operating system is installed.

I suggest you to check the possibility of shrinking the drive by 420GB in the Disk management by following the steps below:

Press Windows logo + X keys on the keyboard and select
Disk management from the context menu.

Right click on the C: drive from the window and select
Shrink Volume from the context menu.

Enter 504000 in the Enter the amount of space to shrink in MB box and click on
Shrink.

Right click on the Unallocated drive which was recently created and select
New simple volume.

Follow the on-screen instructions and assign the drive letter from the window.

After the drive letter is assigned and the procedure is complete, right click on the newly created drive and select
Open from the context menu.

Check if the partition is displayed in the File Explorer.

Write to us with the answer to the above questions and the status of the issue on the same
post for further assistance. Your reply is most important for us to ensure we assist you accordingly.

Thank you.
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Hi,

I bought a new laptop with 2TB HDD and able to shrink volume till 560GB and now I cannot shrink below.

I want to keep the OS drive of 150 GB and rest to be unallocated just for creating another volume when required.

Pls do help!!!

Regards,

Krishna

It does not show any error buts just the volume to be shrink is 0

KrishnaDarbha · Jul 9, 2019

Unable to shrink C: drive less that 480GB in Disk management on Windows 10.

Hello Lex,

Thank you for posting on Microsoft Community. We regret the inconvenience caused and will assist you in resolving the issue.

Before assisting further, I would like to ask you few questions:

a. What happens when you try shrinking
C: drive below 500 GB, do you get any error message/error code?

To create a partition or volume (the two terms are often used interchangeably) on a hard disk, you must be logged in as an administrator, and there must be either unallocated disk space or free space within an extended partition on the hard disk.

The disk space of minimum 4GB and maximum of 8GB should be dedicated to Windows 10 installation files & folders on the drive in which the operating system is installed.

I suggest you to check the possibility of shrinking the drive by 420GB in the Disk management by following the steps below:

Press Windows logo + X keys on the keyboard and select
Disk management from the context menu.

Right click on the C: drive from the window and select
Shrink Volume from the context menu.

Enter 504000 in the Enter the amount of space to shrink in MB box and click on
Shrink.

Right click on the Unallocated drive which was recently created and select
New simple volume.

Follow the on-screen instructions and assign the drive letter from the window.

After the drive letter is assigned and the procedure is complete, right click on the newly created drive and select
Open from the context menu.

Check if the partition is displayed in the File Explorer.

Write to us with the answer to the above questions and the status of the issue on the same
post for further assistance. Your reply is most important for us to ensure we assist you accordingly.

Thank you.
Click to expand...

Hi,

I bought a new laptop with 2TB HDD and able to shrink volume till 560GB and now I cannot shrink below.

I want to keep the OS drive of 150 GB and rest to be unallocated just for creating another volume when required.

Pls do help!!!

Regards,

Krishna

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