![]() You will see a text, “You cannot shrink a volume beyond the point where any unmovable files are located”, that explains why. ![]() There may be an upper limit to how much you can shrink the volume. Make sure to account for Windows 10’s two system partitions, a 300MB recovery partition and a 500MB EFI partition.) (Because my target hard drive is 240GB, I tried to get the partition below 200GB to be on the safe side. Adjust the “Enter the amount of space to shrink in MB” until the “Total size after shrink in MB” is significantly smaller than the target hard drive size.Right-click on the Windows 10 partition and select “Shrink Volume…”.Run Window 10’s “Create and format hard disk partitions” application (aka “Disk Management”).So, here’s how to resize the Windows 10 source partition: To turn BitLocker off, run “Manage BitLocker” and select the “Turn off BitLocker” option. Turning Bitlocker off didn’t take too long (about 20 minutes) because my Windows 10 was a fresh install with just Office and some other apps (about 35GB in size). So, I decided that it would be best to decrypt, clone, and then re-encrypt. I had tested cloning a Bitlocker-protected Windows 7 drive but it failed with a blue screen on startup, after getting past the annoying Bitlocker recovery procedure (because the hard drive signature had changed). ![]() The safest way to satisfy both requirements is to shrink the source partition to ensure that it will fit 100% onto the hard drive.īefore doing anything, I decided to decrypt the drive by turning Bitlocker off. Second, the bigger drive must not have data stored at a location beyond the maximum supported location on the smaller drive. Having determined that I wanted to permanently move to Windows 10, I decided to move Windows 10 to the smaller drive, overwriting Windows 7.įirst, to clone from a bigger to smaller drive requires that the bigger drive not contain more data than can fit into the smaller drive. ![]() I had tried out Windows 10 by installing it on a second, bigger 500GB SSD (Solid State Drive) than my existing Windows 7’s 240GB SSD. ![]()
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