[Solved] Question: How to move unmovable files when contig won't do it? (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm trying to shrink my C: volume to allow for dual booting, but the built in utility is getting hung up on $BITMAP. It was originally having problems with another unmovable file $DATA, but after using contig that one was moved out of the way.

However, no matter what combination of contig options, safe mode, whatever I try, $BITMAP won't move. 200GB free, and I can only shrink the volume by 9GB because of it. :)

I'd prefer not to have to perform a complete reinstall.

Or it seems, I have to go about disabling bitlocker in order to allow a 3rd party tool to work on the partition... Last time I was messing with partitions was from before Secureoot and Bitlocker days. :)

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Are you trying to shrink the OS partition from inside the OS?

For this sort of thing, I'd boot from a Linux USB and use gparted to resize it.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I’m disabled BitLocker, and then the free version of Minitool Partition was able to resize the partition as a reboot action. On to dual boot install!

[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Consider adding this to the main post and editing your title to say "[Solved]..."

[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

[Solution] I disabled BitLocker within Windows, then installed MiniTool Partition Wizard Free 12.8. Using MiniTool, (now that the partition was showing as NTFS and not BitLocker), it allowed me to set a new smaller size, with a prompt to reboot (cannot modify the C: partition while in use).

The system rebooted and before Windows loaded, the partition app did it's thing. Windows then started normally with the smaller partition and no errors.

this post was submitted on 11 Nov 2023

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