Windows 7 Little space being shrunk in Disk Management

[NaartjieDude]

Hello there
I am attempting to shrink my C:/ drive in order to make another partition for Linux Mint.
When I try to shrink the drive in Disk Management, only about 7gb are shrunk, while I have 50gb of free space on that drive, and I even defragmented it. I unfortunately do not have another hard drive I can shrink instead.
I understand that it might not be the best idea to shrink your C:/ drive, but 7gb is just ridiculous!

Thanks,
NaartjieDude

 

[patcooke]

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