Hard drive is 83% free, and completely healthy according to disk management. Any ideas?
You're gonna need to give more info. Bumping because I have a similar problem; I can only shrink 15gb even though I have ~50gb free.
>>58961926
have a 500GB drive, 83% free. sometimes disk management shows I can shrink up to 150GB other times less than 5. When it shows I have enough free to do what I want I attempt to shrink and it throws an error at me.
Defrag, otherwise your files will be spread all through that free space
>>58961818
Don't think of harddrives as a bucket, think of it like a book. Yeah 83% of the area might be written on, but for a new chapter you need multiple continuous pages.
>>58962034
okay will do thank you!
>>58962096
alright that makes sense