I have a 298 GB HDD and it shows that I have 179 GB free. When I try to shrink my C drive, it will only allow me to shrink 9474 Mb. How do I increase this number? I have already defrag the drive.
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I have just bought an HP laptop with Windows&nbsp;7 (64 bit). It has a 500&nbsp;GB HDD with three partitions: a small hidden system partition, a 12&nbsp;GiB HP recovery partition, and a 450&nbsp;GiB C: boot partition.  I would like to split this large C: partition into two partitions, leaving only 100&nbsp;GiB for the system, and giving the rest to a new data partition.  Although the Windows built-in Disk Management utility has an option to shrink the bootable partition, it only allows me to shrink it roughly by half, even though only 20&nbsp;GiB on the partition is used. As far as I understand, system unmovable files lie in the middle of the partition, preventing Disk Management utility to do what I want.    And since new HP laptops don't come with OS installation disks (they only allow you to create recovery disks yourself), I can't just repartition HDD and then reinstall OS.  So, is there a way to shrink the C: bootable partition and preserve Windows&nbsp;7 working?  P.S.: I have tried to use the third-party  utility, and after shrinking the partition, Windows&nbsp;7 stopped booting, with a . System recovery didn't work, and I had to do factory recover. Since this is a long process, I would like to avoid doing it again :) So, please, suggest only proven solutions.
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Two days ago I had a full C: drive, after which I deleted 8 GB of data. The next day the hard drive was full again, so I continued with deleting another 5 GB, and once again the next day the disk was full.   After some searching for what caused the disk space to be filled so quickly, I used the windirstat tool to find which files took up the most space. I found out that the CBS.log file, which is located in c:\windows\logs\cbs\, is 20 GB large.  I am using Windows 8.   Should this file be this large, and if not, how can I reduce the size? What is the purpose of this file? Can I delete it?
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I met the same problem of not being able to shrink the Windows OS partition C: as much as I plan to due to unmovable files.  Having learned from , I would like to "turn System Restore off and remove System Volume Information folders". So I was wondering where and how I can "turn System Restore off and remov System Volume Information folders"?  This is the only way I can find out to solve my problem. If you have other way please let me know.
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What does the 2.5"/3.5" value indicate? The thickness?  I want one of my friends to buy 1TB hard disk for me. I know I want a 1TB capacity and 7200rpm, but don't know how to choose between 2.5" and 3.5"; I am worried that the 3.5" drive may be physically too big.  Also, aside from the measurements, are there any other differences that may cause compatibility or usability concerns?
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I'm trying to update my backup image, which should only includes the C drive.... except now Windows backup is forcing me to include my D drive and labeling it as a system drive, even though it doesn't do anything special (hosts a large VM and some other files) - shown below.  I've also include an image from disk management, in case it helps.  Any help would be appreciated.
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I have a hard drive which is 153 GB with 116 GB free space. I would like to clone this drive to a hard drive which is a 149 GB big (this is the largest hard drive I have... It would be typical that my largest drive is only 4 GB to small).   Is there any way to do this (preferably with free or open source programs)? I am running Windows XP.
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Yeah, so I have 2 hard drives, on with 2 partitions(backups and windows), and I have another that also has 2 partitions with only one used. I have Ubuntu on hard drive 2:partition one, but I have come to a point when the /home folder can't hold any more files, but the partition is only about 15% filled up. So I did some researching and figured out that you can put it on a separate partition, but most of the guides were vague on what I needed to do. Could someone give me step-by-step instructions on what I need to do, or even tell me a, easier or different way to fix this /home folder capacity problem?
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Recently in Windows Explorer, a "Local Disk (F:)" Drive appeared and shows 34.2MB free of 449MB, but when I double click on it, Explorer shows no files on this drive. I don't have any idea what this is and I haven't plugged in any USB drives lately, and I don't have any plugged in now. I scanned it for viruses and it was okay. Windows also keeps notifying me that this drive is low on disk space.  Does anyone have any idea what this drive is?  EDIT: Looks like this issue is since the April 30, 2018 update to Windows 10, as detailed .
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I have few partition like this:    And I want to take the unallocated partition and resize it to /dev/sda12. But when I try to do that:    I can't increase the size.  I have do it in Live Mode, and I have tried to the others partition, but still can't do it.  How do I solve this problem?
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My disk space usage doesn't add up. I should have used only about 80 gigabytes, but according to DaisyDisk about 25 gigabytes is taken up by hidden space. The mystery disk space seems to be classified as other in the About This Mac window.    I've disabled local Time Machine snapshots with sudo tmutil disablelocal and deleted /Volumes/MobileBackups/.  Does anyone know what the hidden space could be or how I could free it up?  Possibly related to .
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I'm trying to extend  the D: partition using unallocated 30.91 GB space at its left side.   states it can't be done using Disk Management's UI and it suggests using 3rd-party tools.  However, how can we do this natively (e.g. diskpart) without installing/downloading additional software?
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In typical PCs the Size of Windows Folder is 6 to 8 GB but in my Case its 25GB. How can I delete the unwanted files from the Windows Folder (which, in turn, will optimize my C Drive size).  My system is Windows 7 with 60 GB in C Drive with 59 GB occupied.
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On my Windows 7 PC, the free disk space has gone down by 1GB even though I haven't downloaded or installed any new files and I haven't downloaded any updates or other things? What could have made the disk space go down for apparently no reason? Is this the result of some sort of a spy program that is undetectable?
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I have a paid 100GB Google Drive plan. It is reporting that I am at 99% capacity.  According to the the storage both within the desktop and web application, I have used 90.53GB within Drive.    My Drive is mapped to my OS X filesystem, and when fully synched it reports only 61.28GB used.    So what is going on here? I need to do a cleanup but cannot account for the 30GB difference.
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Well well well...my computer keeps on eating whatever free space is available in the hard drive. It doesn't care whether the free space is in kb,KB,MB or GB. It happens only in the C drive where my OS &amp; other program files are installed.  I used a software Windir Stat or something like that (I don't remember the name exactly) to analyze the usage of space by various programs.  In my C drive, there's a folder named AppData with loads of useless files. I don't know whether they are useful or not? Are they useful?  I was thinking about deleting the contents of that folder. I visited  for more info. WHich folder should I delete???
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I have a computer harddisc with 3 NTFS partitions:  C /dev/sda1/ D /dev/sda2/ extended /dev/sda5/ E /dev/sda3/    C and E are both 10 GB and D is 55 GB.  I want to merge C and E (or rather expand C to 20 GB).  (E comes from shrinking D using gPARTED...).  I have tried to change the size of C in gPARTED in serveral ways...  Please help me!
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In my computer I have several partitions. I have one partition with Fedora that had just below 40 GB of space, and which I wanted to make bigger. Therefore, using GParted, I moved 10 GB from another partition to the Fedora partition. Now, according to GParted, I should have just below 50 GB (see sda12):  However, from Fedora itself the available space looks different:  This was the same space that was available before I resized the partition. How do I make that space actually available to Fedora?