ASCSDennis
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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.
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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
Defrag AND move of data files
in Defraggler
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That is something I didn't think about.
I will give it a try later today once my teachers & students have left.
Thanks - Dennis