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Can't shrink partition enough to fit on ssd

Macnch3eze
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Check the size of your Virtual Memory and system restore points these are both "un-movable files" so once windows is running you can't move the files to another part of the disk to shrink the partition they are on.

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I recently bought a Intel 730 240 gb ssd and can't shrink the volume of my current 500gb drive to a small enough to just clone the drive. it keeps going down to 238 gb(properties of drive says 166gb of 238 free) and the ssd only has 227gb avaliable help

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Then delete stuf on the HDD, or save it on a cloud service (Dropbox, Onedrive, etc) or external HDD.

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defrag your 250 and then shink it abit more.

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Tried defraging it a and it does defragmetio it but then it says I can't shrink any more also I have 166 gb free

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You can try running CCleaner and have it remove some data including windows updates files which can sometimes take up a fair amount of space. I also use a program called WinDirStat which will look at your current drive and show what is using the most space which helps in getting rid of un-needed files.

 

You can also remove one of the larger games and then reinstall once done. These are all things I have done for my self and friends who moved to SSDs.

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Check the size of your Virtual Memory and system restore points these are both "un-movable files" so once windows is running you can't move the files to another part of the disk to shrink the partition they are on.

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