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Lost HDD space after Shrinking

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I received my new HP laptop last Thursday, and I wanted to partition the 750GB HDD into three partitions for use as follows: 1. Windows (~100GB); 2. My Documents (~50GB); 3. My Media (~600GB).

Having previously always built my own PCs and therefore partitioned the HDDs before installing Windows, I have never had to partition through Windows before, so researched how to do it. Microsoft recommended 'Shrinking' the HDD and then creating the partitions in the unallocated space.

I did this, but the largest amount I was offered to shrink the drive by was half the size of the C: drive. I chose to do this, but nothing seemed to happen.

I decided to continue installing some software then restarted the PC before returning to Disk Management and trying again. This time, it kept telling me that there was 0GB available shrinkage, which was when I noticed that the drive was listed as being only 343.64GB in size in the Volume List but given as 684.18GB in Graphical View. No extra 'unallocated' drive space was shown.

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In Windows Explorer, my C: drive is listed as being 343GB.

I have since tried using a number of software utilities to help solve this problem, but none have been able to shed any light on what is going on.

Can anyone help me get back my missing drive space, and then help to partition it in the way that I want?

Laptop specs are given below:
Model: HP ProBook 455 G1
Processor: AMD A4-4300M APU with Radeon HD Graphics 2.50GHz
Installed Memory: 8.00GB (7.20GB Usable)
System Type: 64-Bit Operating System
Windows Edition: Windows 7 Professional

Thanks for looking, I hope someone is able to help.

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