Windows 10: why can i only shrink my drive by 10GB in diskmgmt.msc when i have 100GB+ of free space?

Discus and support why can i only shrink my drive by 10GB in diskmgmt.msc when i have 100GB+ of free space? in Windows 10 Ask Insider to solve the problem; im trying to make space for dual booting another OS and i can only shrink my disk space by 10GB. was wondering if theres anything i can do. CPU:... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Ask Insider' started by /u/rrekaF, Jan 23, 2021.

  1. /U/RREKAF
    /u/rrekaF Win User

    why can i only shrink my drive by 10GB in diskmgmt.msc when i have 100GB+ of free space?


    im trying to make space for dual booting another OS and i can only shrink my disk space by 10GB. was wondering if theres anything i can do.



    CPU: ryzen 5 2600

    GPU: GTX 1660 super

    MB: ASRock fatality B450

    SSD: Crucial bx 500 - 480GB



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    /u/rrekaF, Jan 23, 2021
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  2. DARYLDFS
    DarylDFS Win User

    Windows 10 missing F drive

    Followed all steps as directed. diskmgmt,msc does not list F: drive and none of the unallocated drives is large enough to be my F: (Samsung SM-G920V). Any brighter ideas?
     
    DarylDFS, Jan 23, 2021
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  3. VIJAYGUPTA_VIJU
    vijaygupta_viju Win User
    Shrinking of C drive beyond Pointer size

    I tried to create a drive of size 100GB by shrinking C drive which is having 768GB free of 910GB but it is showing size of available shrink space is only 5002MB.

    I don't know how to resolve this problem.

    Plz help
    why can i only shrink my drive by 10GB in diskmgmt.msc when i have 100GB+ of free space? 82f5e90f-4d43-4d0f-9d30-0c86c340b3d2.png
     
    vijaygupta_viju, Jan 23, 2021
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  4. SANTHOSHRK
    SanthoshRK Win User

    why can i only shrink my drive by 10GB in diskmgmt.msc when i have 100GB+ of free space?

    how to shrink more space from C drive w10

    I have some 500gb on my c drive which is of not much regular use for me except downloading something .,,.so i just want to shrink some more memory from it make one or two more drives ,..,

    total drive capacity 1TB , 70GB OS installation,

    Extra Info:

    (m not able to extract more that 450GB from total of 1TB)

    extracted 400gb ,so i want to make two more drives of 100gb each shrinking excess memory from c drive ,.,.

    please help me out .
     
    SanthoshRK, Jan 23, 2021
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