Windows 7: Move Immovable Files?

stevieray · 03 Jul 2009

Anyone know of an app that can move immovable files?

I've got a wee bit of empty space in my C:/ drive... I'd like to shrink it, but there's a single file stopping me.

zigzag3143 · 03 Jul 2009

Quote: Originally Posted by stevieray

Anyone know of an app that can move immovable files?

I've got a wee bit of empty space in my C:/ drive... I'd like to shrink it, but there's a single file stopping me.

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Hey SR
Yeah but they may be immovable for a reason. does the defragger tell you what they are?

If you move them and they are something like a system file, or page file, you would be hosed. Find out what they are before you move them

Ken

Webadict · 03 Jul 2009

Zigzag is on the ball.

Files which are in use, the Master File Table (if the drive is NTFS), and the system page files to name a few.

Hope this helps

Scott

stevieray · 03 Jul 2009

I haven't yet figured out what's in that lone file.

I want to shrink my C:/ drive down to about 100 gigs, but that one file is stopping me. Why on earth would the system park a file way the heck out there? Just to mess with my head? Grrr....

I guess I'll have to live with it this way until I clean install the official Win 7 release in a few months. Then I'll make sure the C: partition is shrunk before the install.

zigzag3143 · 03 Jul 2009

Quote: Originally Posted by stevieray

I haven't yet figured out what's in that lone file.

I want to shrink my C:/ drive down to about 100 gigs, but that one file is stopping me. Why on earth would the system park a file way the heck out there? Just to mess with my head? Grrr....

I guess I'll have to live with it this way until I clean install the official Win 7 release in a few months. Then I'll make sure the C: partition is shrunk before the install.

There is another way. when you do a backup and then a restore most commercial utilities automatically defrag during the restore. Norton ghost does and I think acronis does as well

Hope this helps and let me know how it turns out

Ken

Barman58 · 03 Jul 2009

Have a look at sysinternals tools pendmove and movefile utilities that allow you to move normally locked files. They are command line utilities - information here ....

File and Disk Utilities: Sysinternals Center, Microsoft TechNet

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