Wrong volume information after deleting of partition
Hi
I have Windows 7 64bit and Acronis Disk Director 11 Home. My SSD has a capacity of about 149GB. I had two partitions on it, one primary (for the OS) and one logical (for data). Then I removed the logical partition with the Disk Director and add the free space to the primary partition (so now I have only one partition on the SSD).
The problem is that I think something went wrong with the reallocation of the space. In the properties of the local disk there is written that my SSD only have a capacity off 48.9GB, also similar in the "Computerverwaltung" (I don't know the naming of the englisch windows version). But in the Disk Director the volume is correctly labeled with 149GB. Look at the 3 screenshots.
What can I do?
I have no backup, but that's not a problem, because everything else is working and there is no data loss.
I'm disappointed from Acronis Disk Director that such a thing can happen.
I will try your idea. How do I use the disk management? Just decrease the volume with the Disk Director? But I'm afraid that something will go wrong again if I'm using the Disk Director (perhaps the Disk Director works bad with Windows 7 or with SSD).
Disk Management is part of Windows. I recommend using it instead of DD since DD will probably want to reboot to make the changes. You can get to Disk Management by doing the following: Click Start (Windows orb), right click on Computer, click on Manage in the pop-up menu, then click on Disk Management in the tree on the left side of the Window that comes up. Right-clicking on the partition will give you the menu of available options (shrink, etc.). The operation should only take a few seconds and Windows will not need to reboot.
Note: When "everything else" is working and there is no data loss, it's the perfect time to make a backup. I always recommend creating a backup before making any partitioning changes -- just in case something goes wrong. This is a standard recommendation, regardless of the partitioning program being used.
The problem you have does come up from time to time. Apparently, the physical partition size and the size in the file system get out of sync somewhere during the operation.
Backup is done, but I can not shrink the disk because it shows 0MB for the "size of available shrink space". That's a normal problem I've read.
The size of the available shrink space can be restricted by the amount of space currently allocated to on the hard drive for the virtual memory page file, System Protection maximum storage space size, and hibernation files. The location of the files on the hard drive plays a big part here because these files are marked as unmovable, and Disk Management is unable to relocate them. As such, if these unmovable files are located in the middle of the total amount of free space on the disk, then only the amount of free space on the other side (to the right) of these files will actually be available for the new partition. This will result in you showing that you have x amount of free space, but not being able to use it for your partition. The only way around this is to use a 3rd party hard drive partition management program, or setup the partition when installing Vista.
I've disabled the virtual memory page file, but it didn't work. Defragmenting would help, but I don't want to defragment because I have a SSD.
So what should I do? Use Disk Director to shrink?
In that case you would need to use DD or some other partitioning program that will move used sectors. Go ahead and try it with DD.
It worked. Thank you.