Try BootIt Next Generation [url]http://www.terabyteunlimited.com[/url] , it will
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CD or fdd.
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M. [Windows - Shell/User MVP]
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"gunzo99" <gunzo99@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:F6D8132B-C187-42ED-921B-03BDABA54754@microsoft.com...[color=blue]
> Hello,
>
> I have a toshiba laptop with vista. I did a first shrink on C: with
> good
> results. But now, like others, I cant go further down. I downloaded
> PerectDisk 8 and did several defrag (after reboot), removed temp
> files, used
> with admin level the powercfg -h off command, my pagefile.sys is about
> 16Mb
> (small than if turned off!).
>
> All this and still impossible to shrink a 79Gb partition (C:)... My
> last
> resort is acronis but I need to buy it and I would be fustrating to do
> this
> just to get starting with this new laptop!
>
> I see in the stats of PerfectDisk few blocks at the end of the
> partition
> that are MFT and Metadata... The software can't tell me what files
> (path) are
> associated with these few blocks... that are blocking further
> shrinking!
>
> What can I do?
>
> If I need Acronis, is the Free Trial version with this limitation
> still ok?
> They say:
> Only partitions of the minimum size (1 cylinder ~ 7,8 MBytes) can be
> created
> (both in Windows and in rescue mode)
>
> Thanks!
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