Re: Can "pre installed Windows" on a laptop be used as a VM

[Mayuresh <mayuresh%acm.org@localhost>]

On Mon, Nov 28, 2022 at 12:22:06AM -0600, Clay Daniels wrote:
> If you run the Windows Command Prompt as Admin, type "diskmgmt" and the Disk
> Management window will open. You can also get to Disk Management from the
> Windows Control Panel. It offers options to shrink the volume. It also
> recommends you first run the Windows Defragment routine on the volume before
> you try to shrink it. Good Luck

Thanks. Did "disk cleanup" and defrag before shrink. There was also an
option to compress, but didn't use that.

Strangely, after defrag the occupied space went up from 36.4G to 37.1G!
Not sure why. Anyway left 50G for the builtin OS and reclaimed the rest.

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Mayuresh