NTFS Trouble. :(

Hey guys.

Basically, I am trying to shrink my system partition, but "\$Secure::$ATTRIBUTE_LIST" is preventing me from doing so. To my understanding, this was created because the MFT got full at some point, though I could be mistaken. Is there any way to rebuild the MFT to remove this file, or at least a way to move this file to the start of the partition? it's really drving me up the wall. Just to be clear, I want to be able to shrink the partition without losing any of the data on it.

Thanks,
Tom.

I will give this a try, Bill, although I should note that I already tried Paragon Advanced Recovery CD 2011. I tried shrinking the drive directly, cloning the drive, and shrinking it in the process, and making a backup of the files on the drive, then restoring them to another smaller partition. All of these methods failed, with some error about cross-linked files. I assume it's talking about the \$Secure::$ATTRIBUTE_LIST file, because when I use the Windows shrink facility, this shows up in Event Viewer.

I already tried Defraggler, pincushion, and it didn't work. Thanks for the suggestion though.

Well, Partition wizard did the trick! Thanks a lot, Bill, this one really had me scratching my head. :)