Re: [H] drive won't shrink

2014-05-11 Thread Winterlight
At 11:18 PM 5/11/2014, you wrote: 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

Re: [H] drive won't shrink

2014-05-11 Thread Harry McGregor
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

Re: [H] drive won't shrink

2014-05-11 Thread Winterlight
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 th

Re: [H] drive won't shrink

2014-05-11 Thread Harry McGregor
Hi, Two suggestions. Defrag the drive and look to see if any data is way out near the end. Second, use an Ubuntu live CD, and use Gparted to do the shrink. -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 a

[H] drive won't shrink

2014-05-11 Thread Winterlight
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 d