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    Unnecessary C drive size. Unable to shrink. Please help.

    Discussion in 'Samsung' started by manassehdavid, Sep 23, 2012.

  1. manassehdavid

    manassehdavid Newbie

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    Hi nice people

    I just bought this amazing laptop on earth. Its a Samsung 5 series laptop with a third generation i5 processor and really nice graphic memory of two gigabytes. I have spent all my savings for two years to buy this beauty. I like the experience when I'm working on it. It's 23rd hour of this laptop in my possession.

    But here's the difficulty I have with it. It has come with an OEM preinstalled Windows 7 HP. And they haven't given me the key which I really don't mind cause I know I can take care of it without having the need to reinstall the whole operating system. But the real trouble is that when I go to "Computer Management" and try to make multiple partitions, (as it had only one partition with the OS and everything else in it) it doesn't shrink down the entire C drive to the size I would like to have it. It brings it down to half the size of the hard drive and thereafter says that there's no more shrinkable memory. This has really gotten me on my toes. I'm looking all over the internet for solutions and all of the links the grandfather Google is giving me is only taking me in loops, in vain. I have been acquainted with technology for a while now and I know that all problems precede solutions countering them. Windows is awesome. Samsung is brilliant. But I need help with shrinking the drive down from half TB to around 100GB. Please help.

    Much thanks!
    Manasseh David
    NP550P5C-S01IN
     
    manassehdavid, Sep 23, 2012
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  2. John Ratsey

    John Ratsey Moderately inquisitive Super Moderator

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    1. On the Series 9 the Windows key is on the PSU. Did you look there?

    2. I suggest you try an alternative partition manager program. search for "free partition manager".

    John
     
    John Ratsey, Sep 23, 2012
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  3. TANWare

    TANWare Just This Side of Senile, I think. Super Moderator

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    You will need a outside defrag program like perfect disk. Even if you just use the trial version. After you shrink you have to then defrag it, and then reboot, so it can attempt to move the "unmoveable files". This mean doing the system file defrag on boot too. After a few defrags and subsequent partition shrinks you will get there.

    I have done this multiple times on computers to shrink the partition so that I could get it under a SSD's size so that I could then use backup and restore to create a backup to restore to the new SSD. With the new shrunk partiton of the HDD you actually will get better performance too as writing to it the heads do not have to travel as far to reach the extremes of the partition plus you will be writing and reading from the fastest tracks on the drive for the c:\ partition...................
     
    TANWare, Sep 23, 2012
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