<div>
You need to defrag the drive fully before you can shrink it.
</div>


<div>
I personally would use a 3rd party tool like pqmagic
</div>


<div>
<div class="content wysiwyg-content">
I need to shrink the D: Volume on a 64Bit Server 2008 R2 system; 500GB with 121GB free space. I only need about 40 GB to increase C: volume size<br />
Shadow Copy is disabled and there are no Page files on D:<br />
The utility in Disk Manager reports size of available shrink space is zero
</div>
</div>


I need to shrink the D: Volume on a 64Bit Server 2008 R2 system; 500GB with 121GB free space. I only need about 40 GB to increase C: volume size
Shadow Copy is disabled and there are no Page files on D:
The utility in Disk Manager reports size of available shrink space is zero

Unable to shring volume Server 2008

Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2, based on the Microsoft Vista codebase, is the last 32-bit server operating system released by Microsoft. It has a number of versions, including including Foundation, Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter, Web, HPC Server, Itanium and Storage; new features included server core installation and Hyper-V.