Hi,

Either use a third party defrag program to move files that Vista's defrag
routing won't, or use a third party program to shrink the volume. Vista's
disk manager will not move files when shrinking a volume, it will stop when
it hits an unmovable file.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"dirtybirdphoenix" <dirtybirdphoenix@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
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>i want to partition my hard drive on my windows vista notebook but for some
> reason there are some files in the middle of my hard drive. how can i move
> all the files to the beginning of my hard drive? in doing so i will be
> able
> to partition my hard drive and keep the system files seperate from my
> personal files. i greatly appreciate any help anyone could give.