[SOLVED] Shrink Volume just hangs

[Novel8]

I have win 10 in my Acer Notebook. I want to create a partition in my only primary one by shrinking the volume in Disc Management. I get the proverbial message to wait as it access the info. I wait and wait and wait and nothing appears. I have also tried this on my desktop with a different system and I get almost immediate response, but not on my notebook.

 

[USAFRet]

1. Why the Shrink?
2. You DO have a known good full backup of the one and only drive, right?

Further, give us some details.
Dive type and size.
A screencap of the Disk Management window would help.

 

[Novel8]

1. Why the Shrink?
2. You DO have a known good full backup of the one and only drive, right?

Further, give us some details.
Dive type and size.
A screencap of the Disk Management window would help.

I was informed that if I want to partition my main and only drive, that i have to shrink the volume to see how much room i have in doing so. I want to create a partition there, cause i want to add important files totally 20 gigs. The response from the program is to see how much room i have in megabytes.

 

[USAFRet]

I was informed that if I want to partition my main and only drive, that i have to shrink the volume to see how much room i have in doing so. I want to create a partition there, cause i want to add important files totally 20 gigs. The response from the program is to see how much room i have in megabytes.

Screencap of your Disk Management window, please.

Partitions are a poor way to segregate data. Why not just another top level folder?

 

[SkyNetRising]

I get the proverbial message to wait as it access the info. I wait and wait and wait and nothing appears.
I have also tried this on my desktop with a different system and I get almost immediate response, but not on my notebook.

Shrink operation may perform drive defragmentation before shrinking. This depends on current level of drive fragmentation.
This can take a long time.

Wait until it finishes. Do not interrupt the process.

 

[Novel8]

artitions are a poor way to segregate data. Why not just another top level folder?

Screencap of your Disk Management window, please.

Partitions are a poor way to segregate data. Why not just another top level folder?

What is a 'top level folder' and where would i install it?

 

[USAFRet]

What is a 'top level folder' and where would i install it?

In File Explorer, open that drive.
Right click in some blank area.
New - Folder. Call it what you want...."Importatnt Files".
Copy your data into that.

No partition needed.

 

[Novel8]

I knew that, but i thought it would be wiser to keep it from my system.

 

[USAFRet]

I knew that, but i thought it would be wiser to keep it from my system.

How so?
Same physical drive, same system.
Partition or folder....not a lot of difference.

 

[Deleted member 14196]

Also make sure that it’s properly backed up in case of drive failure

 

[Novel8]

How so?
Same physical drive, same system.
Partition or folder....not a lot of difference.

You are absolutely right...thank you.