On 5/11/14, 11:01 PM, Winterlight wrote: > > >> Defrag the drive and look to see if any data is way out near the end. > > Your right... it is a few unmovable files at the end of the drive > that is causing the problem I discovered that initially..the unmovable > pagefile was there at the end so I turned the page file off and > rebooted. But then something else got put at the end that I can't > identify. How do I get it from putting unmoveable stuff at the end of > the drive and why can't any partition manager move the files. > You can also disable the hibernation which can cause this.
This thread looks good: http://askubuntu.com/questions/25221/how-to-shrink-windows-partition-with-unmovable-files-in-dual-boot-installation Hopefully this helps Also, shrink what you can, and then keep trying, instead of trying to get it all in one shot. -Harry >> Second, use an Ubuntu live CD, and use Gparted to do the shrink. > > I googled this problem earlier and found a lot of users with apple > products complaining of this... and many of them did try Gparted but > that didn't work either. > > Is this something HP does? How do you get rid of the unmovable files. > I have been working with partitions for a couple of decades and have > never come across this. > Thanks for the help Harry. > > >> -Harry >> >> On 5/11/14, 9:11 PM, Winterlight wrote: >> > I am working on a HP Pavilion. It has a 550GB hard drive and there is >> > nothing unusual about the Win 7 Home Premium setup. It has a 195 MB >> > boot drive = C. The Win 7 D drive with about 450 GB on it ...the user >> > only is using 175GB of that D drive... a HP recovery drive of 24GB and >> > the HP utility drive with around 100MB. I want to get rid of the HP >> > stuff so I delete the two HP partitions. Next I try to shrink the >> > 450GB D drive down to 250 which leaves a solid 75 GB free on the >> > drive. But I can't shrink it more then about 7GB because Win 7 Disk >> > Manager says there isn't any space available. I have tried using Win 7 >> > Disk Management, Paragon Partition Manager, and Active Boot >> > Partition Manager and they all have the same issue. >> > >> > Has anybody seen anything like this before.... anybody know why it is >> > doing this and what can be done about it short of backing the 175GB >> > up, deleting the partition, create new partitions, and then restoring >> > the backup in the smaller space? >
