How to Shrink a Volume on a Hard Drive (Windows)

In this guide I will show you how to decrease the size of a volume on a hard drive in order to free up space for a new partition:

1. Press Windows Key + R on your keyboard to open the run dialog box

2. Type in “diskmgmt.msc” and press OK to open Disk Management (You can also open Disk Management by browsing to Control Panel (small icons view) -> Administrative Tools -> Computer Management -> Disk Management (in the left pane))

3. Select the volume you would like to shrink, right click it, and choose Shrink Volume

4. Enter the amount of space you would like to remove from the volume and click shrink (I have entered 50 GB)

5. The size of the volume should now have been successfully decreased and you should have unallocated space on your drive

6. You are now free to create more partitions on your hard drive 

Note: You can follow my guide here on how to create a new volume in the unallocated space on your hard drive.