Shrinkable space on external harddrive unusually small

Shrinkable space on external harddrive unusually small I have a 300GB external harddrive. I was going to try and make a partition on it, which includes having to shrink the storage. When I did so, this is what I was shown:
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"This is usually caused my unmovable files on the disk such as system files.

Do a defrag of the external disk and try it again?

You can completely get around it by using something like GParted. There are plenty of other free tools out there too. EASEUS Partition Manager helped me shrink my entire C: drive down and then create a second partition without a hitch. Prefer GParted though."