I am trying to create a new partition on my laptop (XPS 12 9Q33, 128GB SSD) by shrinking the C:\
partition. However, despite the fact that it indicates there is enough space, it displays an error message. I have successfully done this on my desktop, but for some reason it fails on my laptop.
There is not enough space available on the disk(s) to complete this operation.
I am trying to shrink C:\
(which has ~25GB free) by 10GB.
I have:
- ensured there are no files at the end of the sector (disabling pagefile, etc.). See How can I shrink a Windows 10 partition? for how to do that (and you do need to do that).
- turned off my antivirus temporarily.
- disabled BitLocker encryption.
And it still fails. I've even tried Paragon's Partition Manager, which claims there is not enough space on the disk, which is not true.
I have even tried shrinking different sizes (down to 256MB), but to no avail (it still displays the same error).
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Any help would be appreciated.
Best Answer
Try launching the Event Viewer to see which individual files are blocking the partition shrink.
CAUTION: Make sure you know what you are deleting! In my case, I knew that these pdf files were: