[SOLVED] missing ssd space after shrinking volume and lights went off

Nov 24, 2018
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hi guys, im new here, but i got this big problem, im currently using windows 10, i want to do a partition on my pc of windows 7, when i went to disk management on windows10, i did shrink the volume, i own a samsung evo 960 ssd 256GB capacity, as i was saying i went to disk management, shrink volume 60GB i h ad around 100GB of free space if i remember correclty, and suddenly boom! my lights went off, well 20min later i turn on the pc again, and the process of shrinking the volume didnt finish off before the electricity went off, when i tried to shrink the volume again i realize that in disk management i still see the 232GB ssd capacity but when i check my pc on explorer i can only see that the C disk is only 172GB so basically my pc did shrink the volume but its nowhere to be found, its like missing, i will upload some pics so you guys can see wat im talking
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as you can see in the first pic u can see the whole 232GB disk
but on the 2nd pic on pc explorer u can see that 60gb is missing and that was the amount that i shrink before the lights went off
 
Solution


From the commandline:
diskpart, and clean all

http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-3076355/clean-clean-diskpart.html
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/it-pro/windows-vista/cc766465(v=ws.10)
https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/85819-erase-disk-using-diskpart-clean-command-windows-10-a.html


NOTE:
You can't do this from within the actual running OS and drive. You'd have to be booted from some other drive, and this as a secondary drive.
And this will absolutely wipe out everything on this drive.

USAFRet

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Hopefully you made a full drive image before you started down this road?
I'm thinking this didn't happen?

While a power outage during a repartition action is 'rare'...it happens. As you have seen.
This is why you need a fallback point before doing anything like this.
 
Nov 24, 2018
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i didnt lose any important stuff, cuz everything from work is on a external HD, but what i dont understand is, why i miss 60gb of the ssd? when i go to pc explorer i only see 172gb total capacity instead of 232gb, so the 60gb partition was made but its like missing or in hide mode i dont know thats why im asking for help, and i didnt lose anything
 

USAFRet

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The repartition/resize action did not complete.
It changed the size of one, but could not continue with designating the rest of it.

That's my guess, anyway.
 

USAFRet

Titan
Moderator


From the commandline:
diskpart, and clean all

http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-3076355/clean-clean-diskpart.html
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/it-pro/windows-vista/cc766465(v=ws.10)
https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/85819-erase-disk-using-diskpart-clean-command-windows-10-a.html


NOTE:
You can't do this from within the actual running OS and drive. You'd have to be booted from some other drive, and this as a secondary drive.
And this will absolutely wipe out everything on this drive.
 
Solution

USAFRet

Titan
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I am 100% unsure how to fix that, without a full wipe and reformat.
And any way forward trying to fix that in place carries a significant risk of wiping it all out anyway.

Don't need another PC, just another drive.
 

USAFRet

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No, just a "format" won't fix that.
You need to completely remove all partitions on it and start over.