Thank you for being a valued part of the CNET community. As of December 1, 2020, the forums are in read-only format. In early 2021, CNET Forums will no longer be available. We are grateful for the participation and advice you have provided to one another over the years.

Thanks,

CNET Support

Question

Problems after resizing C drive partition

Sep 3, 2018 10:06AM PDT

I recently enlarged the C drive on my PC with spaceI freed up on an existing partition "E drive" using "Minitool Partition Wizard". Everything went according to plan and there were no issues resizing the drive. All drives are reported as being healthy in Windows disc management and I've done a check disk command with no errors found. However there's a few programs that run a lot slower now and a couple that don't run at all. Has anyone run into a similar situation and does anyone have a suggestion on how to fix this?

Discussion is locked

- Collapse -
Answer
For me the final fix was
Sep 3, 2018 10:40AM PDT

To move to SSD. There is a reason a HDD will slow as you make the partition bigger so without getting into this deeply, the answer is yes, that was expected as the zones as you progress deeper into the HDD slow down as there are less sectors per track.

As to the programs that don't run, usually the uninstall, reinstall fixes that.

- Collapse -
Answer
Running chkdsk /f in safe mode fixed the issue
Sep 3, 2018 11:26PM PDT

Try running chkdsk /f in Safe Mode, which fixed my issue. Safe Mode is a diagnostic mode for Windows that starts your computer in a limited state. Only the basic files and drivers necessary to run Windows are started.

- Collapse -
chkdsk /f in safe mode
Sep 9, 2018 3:31PM PDT

Thanks for the response Lula, I'll try that and let you know what happens.