Re: [H] drive won't shrink

2014-05-12 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

Re: [H] drive won't shrink

2014-05-12 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 turned

Re: [H] drive won't shrink

2014-05-12 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

2014-05-12 Thread Winterlight
It turned out to be System Restore that was the problem. I disabled it, deleted the files and then was able to shrink the drive. At 11:29 PM 5/11/2014, you wrote: 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

Re: [H] drive won't shrink

2014-05-12 Thread Michael Resnick
Too bad the partition is deleted. I wonder what the permissions were that prevented you from shrinking the partition. Was it just that it was marked as a system partition? Regards, Mike At 04:47 AM 5/12/2014, Winterlight wrote: It turned out to be System Restore that was the problem. I

Re: [H] drive won't shrink

2014-05-12 Thread Winterlight
what? nothing was deleted except for the unmovable system restore files. Once they were gone I was able to shrink the drive. At 08:25 AM 5/12/2014, you wrote: Too bad the partition is deleted. I wonder what the permissions were that prevented you from shrinking the partition. Was it just