Use of a program like Acronis Disk Director will do all of that for you..

http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing.../diskdirector/

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"dirtybirdphoenix" <dirtybirdphoenix@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
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> 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.
>>
>>