Partition Trouble

[michaelk12]

I have a 4 year old Seagate Barracuda 500Gb drive that came from an OEM PC. There are 230 free Gb's, I need to create an OS-sized partition (I'm reinstalling the OS while trying to keep all the files on the same drive), but it won't let me shrink the C volume by more than 2Gb, and gave some sort of message about it not being able to shrink it if there are unmovable files. I tried to defrag the drive, but every time I open the defrag program, it gives me some message about partitioning has already been enabled by another program, and I can't get into the program.
I know that this is an unreliable drive, could there be so many bad sectors and it is about to die?

[Electronics Wizardy]

4 minutes ago, michaelk12 said:

(I'm reinstalling the OS while trying to keep all the files on the same drive

NOPE

 

Move the files to anouther drive and wipe it.

 

 

[michaelk12]

3 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

NOPE

 

Move the files to anouther drive and wipe it.

 

 

I'm considering that, but that's a last resort.

[EMENCII]

Don't know if it will help, but for partitioning I use Partition Wizard 9.1. Try some other programs to defrag the drive, maybe...