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I'm trying to shrink a partition that has 140GB of 210GB free. I followed the suggestions here: How to shrink Windows 7 boot partition with unmovable files (defragged, turned of restore, recovery, etc) and managed to get about 30GB worth. But now I'm stuck. I can't shrink any further, but it doesn't report any unmovable files. The query runs, and I get an event in the log with ID 258 saying "The disk defragmenter successfully completed shrink estimation on (C:)".

Any suggestions? I'm open to using a third party tool as long as its free. I also have a ubuntu system setup that I could use, though I've read some horror stories about parted making the windows drive unbootable.

Kayson
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Have you Configured your Paging File size?

  1. Go to Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\System
  2. Click on Advance System Settings
  3. Look for Performance and Click the button Settings
  4. In there, Click the Tab Advanced
  5. Look for Virtual Memory and Click the button Change
  6. Uncheck the Checkbox "Automatically Manage..."
  7. Configure Paging Size, Reduce it to a Safe amount.
  8. Try Shrinking Again!
Zaryab Waseem
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