Not able to Partition C Drive

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Hi

I have Dell XPS L520X, I am not able to partition C Drive (452 GB) which do have 240 GB free space available. i tried to do the partition by going to Disk Management -> "Right click" on C Drive -> clicked on "Shrink Volume". Then these are the options i see and also not able to click on "Shrink"

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Total size before shrink in MB: 462852

Size of available shrink space in MB: 0

Enter the amount of space to shrink in MB: 153600 (I am looking to create new partition with 150 GB)

Total size after shrink in MB: 0

"Shrink" button is grayed out.

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Not sure if i need to modify any settings, but below volumes that i see from the Disk Management

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Recovery: Healthy (Systen, Active Primary Partition) 13.71 GB NTFS

OS(C:) Healthy (Boot, Page File, Primary Partition) 452 GB NTFS

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Please help me of this. Thanks for your support.

ejn63 · Answer

There are four primary partiitons on the drive if it came from Dell with Windows 7 -- the maximum for an MBR disc. You will need to remove one partition to add another - the one that is of no use once you do this is the Dell recovery partition, which will no longer function once you make the changes you want to make.

Be sure you've made a recovery disc before you start -- if something goes wrong, you will need it.

Surya_SP · Answer

Hi EJN63,

I don't see 4 partitions from the computer management. Please check the attached screenshot. Not sure if i am missing something. Also just want to let you know that the HardDrive was replaced by Dell long ago as the original Drive was corrupted.

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