Cant shrink SSD

[Uwillparish]

Hey guys,

 

I have a 256gb SSD in my system with about 117gb free, and i want to shink this drive so i can add another OS on it, But when i try and shink it it says i cant shink more than about 1.5gb, Does anyone know how to fix this problem?

 

[Floppy Kant Fish]

 

Hey guys,

 

I have a 256gb SSD in my system with about 117gb free, and i want to shink this drive so i can add another OS on it, But when i try and shink it it says i cant shink more than about 1.5gb, Does anyone know how to fix this problem?

 

 

I beleive you have large files preventing the current partition to be shrunk, forcing the shrinkage can cause file corruption or deletion.

[Uwillparish]

I beleive you have large files preventing the current partition to be shrunk, forcing the shrinkage can cause file corruption or deletion.

what files would those be?

[Floppy Kant Fish]

what files would those be?

 

its hard to say what exactly they would be, it could be anything really. Are you trying to partition for a second host operating system? (dual boot)

[Uwillparish]

its hard to say what exactly they would be, it could be anything really. Are you trying to partition for a second host operating system? (dual boot)

yes, going to dual boot mac osx 

[Dimwitted]

You're going to wreck the drive if you keep trying. Get another drive and load the O/S on that.

[grayperview]

Unfortunately your are going to have to defrag your SSD, I had the same issue and had to use defraggler to move the blocks into a more sequential order to shrink my ssd partition. so all the free space was towards the last 50% of the nand.

 

You will have to turn off you pagefile to do this, and it make take multiple defrags (it did for me) to move the data so the drive can be shrunk...

 

If anyone knows a better solution than this, please post as i don't want to do this again.

 

https://www.piriform.com/defraggler

[Floppy Kant Fish]

 

Unfortunately your are going to have to defrag your SSD, I had the same issue and had to use defraggler to move the blocks into a more sequential order to shrink my ssd partition. so all the free space was towards the last 50% of the nand.

 

You will have to turn off you pagefile to do this, and it make take multiple defrags (it did for me) to move the data so the drive can be shrunk...

 

If anyone knows a better solution than this, please post as i don't want to do this again.

 

https://www.piriform.com/defraggler

 

 

If you have an ssd, never defrag it.

[grayperview]

There is no harm in defragging an SSD, it just add writes to the drive....

[Floppy Kant Fish]

There is no harm in defragging an SSD, it just add writes to the drive....

 

fun fact, windows defragger, if it detects an ssd, will only send a Trim command.

[Uwillparish]

fun fact, windows defragger, if it detects an ssd, will only send a Trim command.

fun fact, mine doesnt, i think theres something wrong with it

[grayperview]

fun fact, windows defragger, if it detects an ssd, will only send a Trim command.

yes it automatically turns off scheduled defrags, you can still do them manually though, but that not the point, the OP can't shrink the volumes on his SSD, this is probably because data is written towards the end of the drive, and the way i found around this was to use defraggler to move the data to  a different part of the drive.

 

Defragging is not recommended due to the limited writes of SSD's but the odd defrag every so often will do no harm to the ssd.

[Uwillparish]

So update, I loaded SanDisk ssd dashboard, and long story short I'm having SanDisk send me another ssd because mine is dying