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Topic: [SOLVED]Where is my free space?

I have an old computer running XP on a 30gig HD. It was spilt into a 5gig C:\ and 25gig D:\. Well after years of XP patches it could use more than 5gigs. So I used GParted to shrink D:\ to 15gig and move it to the end. GParted said that worked, so without restarting I tried to grow C:\ to 15gig. It failed on simulation, but when it rescanned the drive it showed two 15gig partitions. Worried I restated into windows and everything works. However, C:\ still show 4.5gig used and 500mb free. D:\ shows up correctly. Also in windows disk management it says C:\ is 15gig, but where is my free space? It seems to have somehow resized C:\ to 15gig but didn't tell windows about that space being free.

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Re: [SOLVED]Where is my free space?

It happens sometimes, to have the disk management telling that the partition is bigger and the windows disk explorer telling less. This is because the partition did effectively grow, but the filesystem inside it remained the same.

To fix this, you can shrink back that partition to previous size  (or something in between), reboot / check etc and then resize to the wanted size.

*** It is highly recommended to backup any important files before doing resize/move operations. ***

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Re: [SOLVED]Where is my free space?

Thanks.  I tried that not long after I posted here and it did work.  Scared for a sec. though.