hard drive shrink

Well i got lots of help yesterday and i went to make the partition, then i was stumped as i thought well i want 165gig and went to put those values in and the option to shrink then greys out.The max is 48939 which is far from the 165gig i want oh and theres 168gig free space .thx for any help in advance.

 

i had this issue too when i tried to partition my drive. run CHKDSK (from the HDD's "properties -> tools" tab), and be sure to check both little boxes in the prompt thingy that comes up (the lower one, which enables restoring faulty sectors, should be checked too). on a side note, this might take a while

hope that helped.

 

Just a update it says total size before shrink 225485mb,available to shrink 48939,enter amount, the amount in the box is 48939,after shrink 176546.

 

i got these values by going to control panel,system maintenance,admin tools then option create and format + hard disk partition.

 

well i made a new partition and it useless as it says unallocated and when i try to make it usable it says i am already at my limit through the magic of google i managed to extend c drive and have the full amount again phew,now i had a section called recovery on partition d now in my panic i deleted d and that became unallocated i have renamed it recovery but have no idea what went in there or how to make it do so again any help would be great,i have the recovery discs that i made when i 1st got this lappy and i did a backup last night that used nearly 7 dvds if thats any help, if the recovery partition is not needed as i have the backups how can i delete the partition as i have tryed to extend but with no joy.