SOLVED C Hard Drive Partitioning

[maurice.g.filo]

I just bought my surface book. I am trying to partition my C Hard drive. I thought that I have to shrink it first, then create a partition. However, the shrink space allowed is only around 3 GB. My disk size is 512 GB.
I defragmented (or now called optimized) the C drive and retried it, but no use. Could you please help me? I would like to create a new drive call it D, and leave C for windows only.
Thank you

 

[maurice.g.filo]

Just in case someone was wondering. This link is the solution. So never mind.

http://www.download3k.com/articles/...t-where-any-unmovable-files-are-located-00432

 

[chrunos]

The reason why Windows won’t let you shrink the volume is as the message shown in Disk Management suggested, because there are immovable system files at the very end of the volume, as this screenshot from utility shows us. there are multiple things you could try to work this around.
1. Run the Disk Cleanup Wizard, making sure to remove the hibernation file and all restore points.
2. Disable System Restore
3. Disable the pagefile ( Open up System in Control Panel, then Advanced System Settings \ Advanced \ Performance \ Advanced \ Change \ No Paging File.
4. Disable kernel memory dump. In the same Advanced Settings, go to Startup and Recovery \ Settings and then change the Write debugging information drop-down to “None” to disable the kernel memory dump.
5. Disable Hibernation mode in your power options \ advanced power options screen.
Reboot the machine, and then delete your c:\pagefile.sys file, following these instructions if you are having issues.
details about the fix and cause of this problem, see shrink volume not enough space.

 

[davehc]

Just a word of warning, Maurice. I have used Aomei and Eusus, several times in the past. Be very careful that you understand the instructions, It is very easy to end up with a non bootable HD./OS

 

[chrunos]

Just a word of warning, Maurice. I have used Aomei and Eusus, several times in the past. Be very careful that you understand the instructions, It is very easy to end up with a non bootable HD./OS

Yes. I forget to mention there is risk to use third party software