T3X4S Posted June 25, 2015 Share Posted June 25, 2015 I am posting this in HH but it could go in the Windows support thread as well - but I thought I'd have better luck in HH. I am wanting to shrink the main partition on my boot drive (256GB SSD) and install Xubuntu to mess around with. I went into DiskMgmt and cannot shrink the volume. Is this a bad trash collection causing this ? Bad partition ? It says I can only shrink it 5GB, but I clearly have plenty of free space. I have no errors or signs of a bad drive either. Thanks Before I use a 3rd party program to do this, I wanted to make sure I didnt stumble on to a little known bug or something like that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Veteran Posted June 25, 2015 Veteran Share Posted June 25, 2015 It's because unmovable data is written on that part of the drive. You can't make the partition smaller because the data is stored at the 5746MB mark. When this happened to me, I turned off System Restore and deleted all the restore points. It allowed me to shrink further. You could also probably use a Partitioning tool, like EaseUS which is free. http://www.easeus.com/download/epmf-download.html goretsky 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T3X4S Posted June 25, 2015 Author Share Posted June 25, 2015 Yes, thanks What I did was used a free partition tool, and did the partitions how I wanted, no problem there. Then installed Xbuntu. Reboot when it was finished, and it booted straight into my Windows Partition... like it never wrote its bootloader. I rebooted again to verify, straight into Windows. I checked in DiskMgmt and the partitions were there - so I dunno. I wiped the newly created partitions and will do this a different way - maybe create the partitions with the Linux install utility - Weird Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T3X4S Posted June 25, 2015 Author Share Posted June 25, 2015 Well, I just installed Xubuntu 15.04 again. And this time I used the install program you "install linux along side Windows 7" option. It installs, I reboot - and boom - straight to Windows - no Linux bootloader. Any ideas ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Veteran Posted June 26, 2015 Veteran Share Posted June 26, 2015 Make sure you have the correct 'active' partition set. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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