ASCSDennis Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 Running Server 2012 Standard with hardware raid for a small parochial school which has no extra money. Trying to resize partitions to test virtualization. Used Defraggler to optimize the drive which is 638 GB w/500 GB free. Watching the display, i could tell the data at the end of the drive was not getting moved which is stopping "shrink volume" from working. I could move the data to another drive but the metadata files & the Microsoft file table don't budge. There is a SysInternals tool that talks about defragging the metadata files ($logfile & $MFT are the two files causing my problem) but does not move them. I can remember MANY years ago PC Tools would defrag & move the data to the front of the drive. Until I can get the a defragging tool to also move data, I am stuck with this large free space that I cannot shrink. I am almost to the point of spending $499.00 for a M$ support line call. Suggestions? Thanks - Dennis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kroozer Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 I usually suggest using Windows Defragger when repartitioning. Did you try it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ASCSDennis Posted January 5, 2015 Author Share Posted January 5, 2015 Yes I did. That was the easiest thing to use, not realizing files are not move up to the front of the drive. Which was another assumption I made based on past experience. The SyInternals tool I used is Contig.exe. It does just what the name suggests. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kroozer Posted January 6, 2015 Share Posted January 6, 2015 I presume that you are aware that restore points usually land smack in the drive's middle, so before defragging for repartitioning I delete all of them along with paging file and hibernates cos they don't get moved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ASCSDennis Posted January 9, 2015 Author Share Posted January 9, 2015 That is something I didn't think about. I will give it a try later today once my teachers & students have left. Thanks - Dennis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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