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Windows 7 Shrink Disk Unmovable Files

Apr 26, 2010 - The space after this file is the amount by which you can shrink a volume. There are some. The last unmovable file appears to be: System Volume. C: Windows system32>fsutil volume querycluster? Third-party disk defrag programs have better luck moving 'unmovable' files than the built-in defrag. Although the Windows built-in Disk Management utility has an option to shrink the bootable partition, it only allows me to shrink it roughly by half, even though only 20 GiB on the partition is used. As far as I understand, system unmovable files lie in the middle of the partition, preventing Disk Management utility to do what I want.

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