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Old December 26th 09, 11:49 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
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"Gerard Bok" wrote in message
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On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 17:23:08 GMT, "Augustus"
wrote:

I can say is
that in the many years I've done this, using Partition Magic it's never
happened.


But did you ever use PM on a disk over 196 GB in size ? ;-)

(In case you wonder: PM hasn't been updated for years.
When it was current, it's limitation to 192 was no big issue.)

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met vriendelijke groet,
Gerard Bok


PM is as usual been left on the vine by the company to die a slow death. I
would not use it in Windows 7.

However there is a program that is a good partition manager called Easeus
Partition manster new version is 4.1.1.0 and it works fine with Win7.

There is both a free version and a pay version. You can find them on their
web site (google or bing) Good luck and regards,



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Old December 27th 09, 10:17 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
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Gerard Bok wrote:
On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 13:10:55 -0800, "Sparky"
wrote:

Using Win 7 / 64

My HD is 500 gig and I tried to shrink C drive to around 150 mg , but it
ended up being 250 ( perhaps my calculation was off ?)

I'd like to reduce it to 150 and allocated the spare 100 to another
existing partition ( J)

Is that possible using Disk Management ?


Disk Management is rather limited in this respect.
It can shrink NTFS partitions, but it cannot move the MFT (Master
File Table), which is created roughly halfway the originally
assigned size.
That's why you end up with at least half that size. So, the limit
is set by the location of the MFT (and not by 'unmovable files')

You can, however, shrink to less than 50% if you use external
software that is capable of moving --or recreating-- the MFT.
(Either commercial products or Free software.)


Not my experience. I shrank 2 separate installations to less than 50%
using only W7. One I needed to turn off paging and recovery temporarily,
the other just worked.

Andrew
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