shrink partition in Windows Vista : vista, partition, PerfectDisk, defragmentation

Experts Exchange

	[x] Posted via EE Mobile
	Search, ask, and monitor your questions on the go with EE Mobile. Visit Experts Exchange from your mobile device and never be out of touch again.

Question

	[x] Attachment Details

[x]

The Solution Rating System

With so many solutions, how can you tell which solutions are most likely to help you and which ones are not? To provide you with a tool to use, we rate our solutions based on various elements that most accurately determine if a solution is a quality solution. To explain what factors affect the solution rating, here are the elements we take into consideration when formulating our solution rating.

The Grade of the Solution
The Zone Rank of the Expert Providing the Solution
The Number of Author and Expert Comments
The Number of Experts Contributing
The Feedback of the Community

Your Input Matters
Because of the way the system is set up, the most important variable in this equation is you. As a member of Experts Exchange, you are able to cast your vote on the quality of the solutions in regard to how complete, accurate, helpful and easy to understand each solution is. When you provide your feedback, each rating is adjusted accordingly. So, if you see a solution that has a poor rating that you think is a good solution, let us know by rating it. As you do, the rating will be adjusted and will become more accurate for other members of our site.

If you have any suggestions that you would like to make for our rating system, please ask a question in the Suggestions Zone of Community Support.

Thank you!

9.4

shrink partition in Windows Vista

Asked by Infinity08 in Windows Vista, System Utilities, Disk Partition Tools

Tags: vista, partition, PerfectDisk, defragmentation

I've been trying to shrink a 285 GB Vista partition to around 40-50 GB all afternoon (currently about 18 GB is in use), but have only succeeded to shrink it to 163 GB (see Disk_Management.png).

The problem seems to be one or more files near the end of the partition that I cannot seem to move towards the beginning of the partition (see the black block in PerfectDisk_analysis.png). The 3 grey blocks in the middle of the partition are not a problem - they are apparently always in the middle of the partition, and get moved as soon as the partition is resized. The real problem is that black block - no matter what I try, I can't move it (see further for what I tried).

The excluded files are listed in PerfectDisk_excluded.png. I'm not sure which ones of these cause the problem ...

I did disable System Restore, virtual memory, kernel memory dumps and hibernation (and removed the corresponding restore points, pagefile, memory dumps and hibernation file), to give the defragmentation tools the best chance to succeed in moving all data towards the beginning of the partition.
I tried both online and offline (during boot) defragmentation with PerfectDisk ("Consolidate Free Space" actually). It seems that the black block is properly moved when performing the defragmentation offline, but as soon as Vista is started again, the block is back where it used to be.

I don't know what to try next. So, any advice would be very welcome. Thank you !

View the Solution FREE for 30 Days

Attachments:

Disk-Management.png (7 KB) (File Type Details)

Disk Management

PerfectDisk-analysis.png (151 KB) (File Type Details)

PerfectDisk - analysis

PerfectDisk-excluded.png (24 KB) (File Type Details)

PerfectDisk - excluded files

20091111-EE-VQP-92 - Hierarchy / EE_QW_EXPERT_20070906

Hall of Fame

1. LeeTutor522,372
2. nobus303,166
3. McKnife225,106
4. rindi128,359
5. thinkpads...119,751
6. johnb676790,946
7. garycase90,511
8. Merete89,425
9. MASQUE...82,606
10. BitsBytes...81,109
11. burrcm78,082
12. vallis77,303
13. jcgriff276,554
14. KCTS73,519
15. Pete_Zed73,269
16. zvitam66,776
17. gamma1...62,856
18. dstewartjr61,673
19. noxcho57,488
20. torimar51,348
21. andrew_...44,665
22. alanhardisty41,243
23. sramesh2k40,250
24. afoot39,868
25. blohrer38,480

1. LeeTutor1,784,994
2. KCTS684,207
3. nobus662,058
4. McKnife582,832
5. garycase343,993
6. war1340,659
7. vallis329,289
8. rindi321,246
9. Merete299,938
10. PUNKY221,883
11. Ryan_R212,288
12. RobWill189,979
13. SysExpert179,812
14. sramesh2k169,517
15. johnb6767154,582
16. thinkpads...139,351
17. YGregersen138,975
18. andrew_...128,582
19. Netman66124,647
20. tigermatt123,914
21. MASQUE...123,186
22. willcomp121,011
23. burrcm109,256
24. aleinss102,904
25. pcfreaker101,052

shrink partition in Windows Vista

Asked by Infinity08 in Windows Vista, System Utilities, Disk Partition Tools

Tags: vista, partition, PerfectDisk, defragmentation

About this solution