Resizing Partitions Even Further

[iceblitzed]

Hello :

I was trying to shrink my windows partition the farthest I could and it isn't letting me shrink it further than 49GB. Current I have 30GB space used and 19GB space free on windows partition and ~62GB are left unallocated.

 

[USAFRet]

Why? If you shrink it to the absolute minimum needed today, what happens next week with a new Windows Update?

What is the size of the physical drive?

 

[Ijack]

This is just the way it works. You can never shrink the partition to the apparent minimum size because of the implementation details of NTFS (and this is not the place for a tutorial of how NTFS works, even if Microsoft didn't keep that close to their chests).

19GB of free space is not a huge amount of headroom - I wouldn't try to shrink it any more. If your hard disk is only 112GB perhaps it's time to think about getting a bigger one. They are very cheap nowadays. But in any case you should make use of the 62 GB of unallocated space before worrying about the free space on the Windows partition.

 

[iceblitzed]

its 112gb and an 840 evo ssd. ok thanks for the info

the main reason I was asking was because I've seen data on aandatech that usually the more overprovisioning the better for sustained iops performance

 

[USAFRet]

its 112gb and an 840 evo ssd. ok thanks for the info

the main reason I was asking was because I've seen data on aandatech that usually the more overprovisioning the better for sustained iops performance

I have a 120GB SSD Kingston (111GB actual) as my boot C drive. 2.5yrs old, 24/7.
Do not stress over 'over provisioning', and 'free space'. Just leave 10-15% free, and you will be fine.

You will outgrow that 120GB drive long before you might see any difference in having massive overprovisioning space.
The drive firmware does an admirable job of that all by itself.

Rule of thumb for partitioning, especially small drives:
Whatever partition you are trying to use will be too small at that particular moment.