do you have any third party apps that you think i should use? i already use
auslogics disk defrag and it does a great job defraging but it doesn't move
everything to the front of the hard drive

"Rick Rogers" wrote:

> 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.
>
> --
> 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
> message news:17AA13BC-57AA-4454-B6DA-9BD2FFDEED2A@microsoft.com...
> >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.
>
>