Bitlocker Partition Shrinking Problems

Question

I have a laptop, Dell XPS 13, with a bitlocker partition that I want to shrink. I tried the usual shenanigans, disabling the page file, disabling hibernation file etc.

This stackoverflow question seemed to offer some solution; turn off the bitlocker encryption.

However I have the windows 10 home edition, bitlocker options are nowhere to be found. This is to say, Dell preinstalled some bitlocker partition I cannot decrypt => therefore I cannot resize it.

Gparted etc. are pretty useless as far as I know with fully encrypted paritions and I don't really know what to do anymore.

Besides just reinstalling Windows, is there anything else I can do to resize the partition ?

Solution 1

You can do it from the Windows PowerShell (using the command line), here is how:

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-security/how-to-remove-bitlocker-encryption-in-windows-10/27ed49b6-0a67-4574-b31f-3e02a5f8f121?auth=1

Solution 2

So... I have no idea how... but shrinking it suddenly worked ?

I have ran some defragementations using "Auslogics Disk Defrag", but that program didn't seem to do the trick. Other tools also didn't give the desired outcome, but now, after booting a couple of times again, it suddenly just worked.

Thanks for the effort everyone.

Comments

[egray]

So, you're saying that you've got Window 10 Home edition and you also have bitlocker??? Is it possible that you're mistaken about having Home edition or having a bitlocker protected volume?

[Work of Artiz]

I'm sorry if I was being unclear, I have windows 10 home edition, and a bitlocker protected C drive. (aka Disk Management Notes that its "Bitlocker Encrypted")

[Jon Deaton]

I'm having this same problem but unfortunately "booting a couple of times" didn't make it suddenly work for me :(

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[Pietro Battiston]

This worked on a Lenovo Carbon X1