When the reduction of HARD Disk Partition, receiving the message: "the parameter is incorrect."

Original title: HDD Partition "parameter is incorrect".

When I want to partition my hard drive, I go into disk management, I right click on my hard drive and I select shrink. But when I finish all the wizard who give me: "" choose the size of the partition / the letter of the partition "but she say"incorrect parameter"and the capacity of the HARD drive, just go down with this title that I use for the new volume, and the new volume does not appear."

Hi diamond,

What number you specify in the wizard as amount that should be decreased?

The error "the parameter is Incorrect" is an indication that the drive is in use or the partition has been corrupted.

Method 1:

Check if you are able to see/access volume shrunk in safe mode.

Start your computer in safe mode

For more information, see the links:

Shrink a Basic Volume

Easily reduce a Volume on a Windows 7 disc

Note: Make sure that you have a backup of important data on the system.

Method 2:

You can try to run the disk check and check if it helps.

Check your hard drive to find errors in Windows 7

Important: When running chkdsk on the drive if bad sectors are found on the disk hard when chkdsk attempts to repair this area if all available on which data can be lost.

Hope the helps of information. Let us know if you need help with Windows related issues. We will be happy to help you.

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