shrink partition

Hello to anyone reading this. I have a Win 7 64 bit 2012 laptop (HP). My main disk (A Toshiba 320GB) is currently a Dynamic. I want to shrink my Win 7 Partition (Simple) to make room for Linux Mint. Whenever I try to shrink, it can only shrink by about a Gig, and it says "The partition cannot...

I have recently replaced the hdd on my laptop with a 1TB disk I did a clean installation of Windows 10 and then installed Norton Security Software for protection purposes . After that I tried to shrink the single partition (which is shown to contain around 30 GB) to 200 GB so that I could set...

Is it possible to delete the system partition (held Windows XP - no longer needed)? I have Windows 7 on the second partition, and don't really want to do a reinstall. It's partition is set as "C:" when Win7 is booted. Any way to make the second partition the system partition, then delete the...

new here so firstly, hi to all. i need some advice please, so hope some can help and am posting in the correct place. will try to describe the issues below. if i am not clear enough, let me know and i will do my best to explain better. anyway, i had win XP and win 7 installed as dual boot on one...

I am trying to shrink a hard drive using W7 I get the following on any drive I try to shrink. This service cannot be started either because it is disabled or because no enabled devices are associated with it. OS is W7 64 bit, I have 4 internal hard drives two of them are 1.5 TB two are 750 gig...

Hi I have a problema when making a bigger C partition (where i have win7). I get free space but i cant then use to expand C. I have win 7 , ultimate, 64 bits Im trying to do with paragon partition manager, from program and from cd boot maked from this program. This is my start...

I got a new Dell Win7 computer with 640 GB hard drive. But free space for C-Partition in the new computer is now 555gb. For my XP computers, the size of C-partition is about 60 GB. So I tried to shrink 555 gb size to 60 gb in the Disk Managment. I could not shrink to that low but only...

Recently shrunk my Vista partition on my laptop to created a new partition for a Win 7 install. All is working great, able to choose either partition on start up with no problems. Now here's where my problems lie: I want to get rid of my original Vista partition (C:) and add the free space...

Hello guys... I use Dell Notebook with Vista Home Premium. I have 250 GB of HDD and i just recently shrink C: drive from (220 GB) to (180 GB) but i can't carry on after shrink. It said "There is no enough space available on the disk(s) to complete this operation" or something like that. I...