Viewing types fo files and location on hard drive?

A couple days ago I posted a question about partitioning a large hard drive.
I am having trouble getting Disk Management to break the hard drive into
small partitions. I have a 750G drive with one partition and when I try to
shrink it Vista only allows me to make it 500G. People on this newsgroup
have posted that the problem is that some non-movable files have been
created in places on the drive and that I need a third party partitioning
app to find those files and move them to do the partitioning.

I will probably buy one -Acronis Disk Director. But before I buy I'd like
to view those files.

Is there a free app or something built into Vista that will allow me to see
a graphic of where those files are on the disk that are causing the
problem?

regfman

Walter;552651 Wrote:
> A couple days ago I posted a question about partitioning a large hard
> drive.
> I am having trouble getting Disk Management to break the hard drive
> into
> small partitions. I have a 750G drive with one partition and when I try
> to
> shrink it Vista only allows me to make it 500G. People on this
> newsgroup
> have posted that the problem is that some non-movable files have been
> created in places on the drive and that I need a third party
> partitioning
> app to find those files and move them to do the partitioning.
>
> I will probably buy one -Acronis Disk Director. But before I buy I'd
> like
> to view those files.
>
> Is there a free app or something built into Vista that will allow me to
> see
> a graphic of where those files are on the disk that are causing the
> problem?
>
> regfman

Hi Regfman,

You can use Auslogics Disk Defragmenter to get a idea of the placement
of these allocated files on the hard drive. You can see the space gap
between the defragmented sections as it while defraging.

'Auslogics - Download Auslogics Disk Defrag'
(http://www.auslogics.com/en/software...efrag/download)

The unmovable files are the System Retore Point, Virtual Page Memory,
etc. files. You will not be able to view them like normal files.

Hope this helps some,
Shawn


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>
> You can use Auslogics Disk Defragmenter to get a idea of the placement
> of these allocated files on the hard drive. You can see the space gap
> between the defragmented sections as it while defraging.
>
> 'Auslogics - Download Auslogics Disk Defrag'
> (http://www.auslogics.com/en/software...efrag/download)
>
> The unmovable files are the System Retore Point, Virtual Page Memory,
> etc. files. You will not be able to view them like normal files.
>
> Hope this helps some,
> Shawn

I downloaded and tried it. A screen shot would be an eaiser way to report
what I am seeing but it'd say that I see where the green allocated space is
stopping about 500G into the 750G with all grey unallocated space following
it. There is a huge amount of grey unallowcated space between the first
small group (probably the OS install) at the beginning of the disk and
another larger group that starts up with a yellow "system metadata" about
half way through the disk.

Regardless of what I think I see I guess I need third party tools to move
unmovable files so that I can make smaller partitions.

Walter;552812 Wrote:
> >> > >
> > > You can use Auslogics Disk Defragmenter to get a idea of the
> > placement
> > > of these allocated files on the hard drive. You can see the space gap
> > > between the defragmented sections as it while defraging.
> > >
> > > 'Auslogics - Download Auslogics Disk Defrag'
> > > ('Auslogics - Download Auslogics Disk Defrag'
> > (http://www.auslogics.com/en/software...efrag/download))
> > >
> > > The unmovable files are the System Retore Point, Virtual Page Memory,
> > > etc. files. You will not be able to view them like normal files.
> > >
> > > Hope this helps some,
> > > Shawn > >
>
> I downloaded and tried it. A screen shot would be an eaiser way to
> report
> what I am seeing but it'd say that I see where the green allocated
> space is
> stopping about 500G into the 750G with all grey unallocated space
> following
> it. There is a huge amount of grey unallowcated space between the
> first
> small group (probably the OS install) at the beginning of the disk
> and
> another larger group that starts up with a yellow "system metadata"
> about
> half way through the disk.
>
> Regardless of what I think I see I guess I need third party tools to
> move
> unmovable files so that I can make smaller partitions.

Walter,

A 3rd party tool will let you do it without losing anything, or you can
boot from the Vista installation DVD and do it after deleting all
partitions and recreating them as you want them before installing. The
3rd party tool will give you more options though.

Shawn


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