{"id":898,"date":"2018-03-01T16:52:55","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T16:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/info.greatis.com\/guide\/?p=898"},"modified":"2018-03-01T16:52:55","modified_gmt":"2018-03-01T16:52:55","slug":"shrink-partition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/info.greatis.com\/guide\/windows10\/shrink-partition\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Shrink a Partition in Windows 10?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may need to shrink a partition, if you have extra space on your drive which you would like to use for installing another OS in a dual boot configuration. Or if you have a new computer with only one big partition created by the vendor, you might want to split it into two or more partitions to separate your personal data from the system drive. Here is how to do that.<\/p>\n<h3>Here is How to Shrink a Partition in Windows 10:<\/h3>\n<div class=\"w10steps\">\n<ul>\n<li>STEP 1: At first, press Win+X keys together and select <b>Disk Management<\/b> in menu.<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/info.greatis.com\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/03\/windows-10-run-disk-management.png\" alt=\"windows-10-run-disk-management\" class=\"responsive-img\" \/><\/li>\n<li>STEP 2: Then right-click on the partition you would like to <b>shrink<\/b>, and select <b>Shrink volume<\/b> in the context menu.<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/info.greatis.com\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/03\/windows-10-shrink-volume.png\" alt=\"windows 10 shrink volume\" class=\"responsive-img\" \/><\/li>\n<li>STEP 3: Finally, type by how many MBs you want to shrink the partition, and click on <b>Shrink<\/b>.<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/info.greatis.com\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/03\/windows-10-confirm-shrink.png\" alt=\"windows-10-confirm-shrink\"  class=\"responsive-img\" \/>\n<\/li>\n<p>The process takes a few seconds but Disk Management shows no progress bar. Once the process is done, it will show you <b>Unallocated space on the drive<\/b>.\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is How to Shrink a Partition in Windows 10<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":902,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>How to Shrink a Partition in Windows 10? - Windows Tips, tricks, Hacks and Tweaks<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Here is How to Shrink a Partition in Windows 10\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/info.greatis.com\/guide\/windows10\/shrink-partition\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How to Shrink a Partition in Windows 10? - Windows Tips, tricks, Hacks and Tweaks\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Here is How to Shrink a Partition in Windows 10\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/info.greatis.com\/guide\/windows10\/shrink-partition\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Windows Tips, tricks, Hacks and Tweaks\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-03-01T16:52:55+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/info.greatis.com\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/03\/windows-10-shrink-volume.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"589\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"427\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Andrew Wise\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@AndrewWise911\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Andrew Wise\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/info.greatis.com\/guide\/windows10\/shrink-partition\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/info.greatis.com\/guide\/windows10\/shrink-partition\/\",\"name\":\"How to Shrink a Partition in Windows 10? - Windows Tips, tricks, Hacks and Tweaks\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/info.greatis.com\/guide\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2018-03-01T16:52:55+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2018-03-01T16:52:55+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/info.greatis.com\/guide\/#\/schema\/person\/4494705d8033ced33d2cfbc9c4c4a9f6\"},\"description\":\"Here is How to Shrink a Partition in Windows 10\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/info.greatis.com\/guide\/windows10\/shrink-partition\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/info.greatis.com\/guide\/windows10\/shrink-partition\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/info.greatis.com\/guide\/windows10\/shrink-partition\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/info.greatis.com\/guide\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"How to Shrink a Partition in Windows 10?\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/info.greatis.com\/guide\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/info.greatis.com\/guide\/\",\"name\":\"Windows Tips, tricks, Hacks and Tweaks\",\"description\":\"Just another Security News site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/info.greatis.com\/guide\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/info.greatis.com\/guide\/#\/schema\/person\/4494705d8033ced33d2cfbc9c4c4a9f6\",\"name\":\"Andrew Wise\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/info.greatis.com\/guide\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/cdaec00c9b2be4cafb2b31b08041a779?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/cdaec00c9b2be4cafb2b31b08041a779?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Andrew Wise\"},\"description\":\"Andrew is just a guy who uses computers every day, and hates if troubles come into his life. 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