Windows 7 Shrink Disk Unmovable Files
A reply was never forthcoming from anyone on the forum - apparently. It appears to be too technical for anyone to respond to; and is a common event for this forum. What I know (as best as I can) is this:. $LogFile is an ever growing file. $LogFile is classified as a SH (System Hidden) type file. Normal tools provided with the base OS never show any object prefexed with '$'. The OS considers any file prefixed with '$' to be a system-use only file - do-not-touch by users.
However, the base OS is not real good at cleaning up after itself; and its own tables continue to grow beyond any boundry of commen sense. While I don't have a clear answer to your question, I hope this sheds some light on the type of file being asked about and how weak the responses are from this forum. I would recommend searching the web for a proper tool to analyze then reduce the size of the file, since MS does not seem inclined to provide such tools. I'm certain that the file is needed for proper operation of the OS, though I don't know if it is automatically recreated. I have tried all the above suggestions to no avail including Perfect Disk and Iolo System Mechanic. None of the defrag programs worked. When deleting the file Windows 7 would immediately recreate the file at the END OF THE DRIVE.
Why put a shrink option in if your software is going to block its access. I finally resolved my issue by backing up with Total Recovery 8 Pro. Then using their tools command line I formated the c drive followed by a restore. The restore packs all the files at the beginning of the drive. I rebooted and selected computer management, disk management, selected the 'C' drive - right clicked and selected shrink.
It gave me the option to shrink all the way to the used space. I backed it off to the size I wanted 115GB and it shrunk the drive. Everything is working fine. I hope Microsoft will read these posts and change the philosophy of putting unmovable files at the end of the drive. At least put them in the middle where we have a shot at shrinkage. Thanks everyone for helping me along my way. BTW - What I did is the way we shrunk drives back in the 70's and early 80's.
Using PerfectDisk Pro Trial and the 'Prep for Shrink' function alerted me to the files which couldn't be moved on the disk. By using Windows 10 Disk Management function, you can shrink the drive to half it's size, but as noted in this thread, you are prevented from going any further. You may be surprised to hear that once this Shrink is done and the device rebooted, some of the 'unmovable' files will have moved to the middle of the downsized logical disk.
You will need to disable pagefile.sys from operating on the disk you are trying to shrink. This is an advanced system setting under performance settings. You will also need to disable Hibernation and Hiberfil.sys. To disable the Hibernation feature in Windows and delete the hiberfil.sys file in the process, do this: 1. Type powercfg -h off, then press Enter. Finally, by using the 'Boot time Defrag' of PD and also repeating the 'Prep for Shrink', I was finally able to move the system files towards the beginning of the disk.
Last stop, back to the Windows 10 Disk Management utility and Shrink my C: drive. Now I can create a new System Recovery Image and restore it to my new (but smaller) SSD drive!:-).
Cannot Shrink Volume Windows 10
My OS is Win 7 Ultimate 32bit with SP1 and all updates installed. 320 GB HDD with 4 partitions: C: (System partition-Primary) and 3 partition (Logical) use to save my data!
Now I want to create new partitions for my various data from F drive (last partition) but I can't shrink this volume. It have warning: 'You cannot shrink a volume beyond the point where any unmovable files are located. See the 'defrag' event in the Application log for detailed information about the operation when it has completed.' 'See 'Shrink a Basic Volume' in Disk Management help for more information.
Help in Disk Management says: When you shrink a partition, certain files (for example, the paging file or the shadow copy storage area) cannot be automatically relocated and you cannot decrease the allocated space beyond the point where the unmovable files are located. If the shrink operation fails, check the Application Log for Event 259, which will identify the unmovable file. If you know the cluster or clusters associated with the file that is preventing the shrink operation, you can also use the fsutil command at a command prompt (type fsutil volume querycluster/? When you provide the querycluster parameter, the command output will identify the unmovable file that is preventing the shrink operation from succeeding.' 'In some cases, you can relocate the file temporarily. For example, if the unmovable file is the paging file, you can use Control Panel to move it to another disk, shrink the volume, and then move the page file back to the disk.'
Windows 7 Shrink Disk
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