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    XPS M1730 Unable to shrink volume with shrinking option in computer management

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by ibmt41, Sep 15, 2009.

  1. ibmt41

    ibmt41 Notebook Geek

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    Hi guys!
    I have a M1730 with about 195 gb free of disk. This is an OS disk. I want to shrink the volume but it was impossible through shrinking option in computer management. After shrinking, I want to name the volume and format it but keep getting this message: "You can not create a new volume in this unallocated space because the disk is already contains the maximum number of partitions."
    Can you guys help me out with this.
    Including some pics of my screen about this problem
    1, http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/2011/94225508.jpg
    2, http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/6347/72468024.jpg
    3, http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/2001/67617785.jpg

    Btw, when I got the laptop from the factory, there were two partitions, one has 102 Mb free, another has 3.12gb free. I haven't seen them and don't know if it is necessary to keep them or not. One more thing is with the recovery partition, can I resize it since the file just consumes haft of the volume.

    Any help would be deeply appreciated!
     
    ibmt41, Sep 15, 2009
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