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        <title><![CDATA[Bytes Math]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-340185-3676838]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[You did not lose space to Windows. 1 GByte is not equal to 1,000 MBytes but rather 1,024 MBytes. (And, of course, 1 MByte is equal to 1,024 KBytes. And so on...)So when you chose 5,000 MBytes, you really chose 4.88 GBytes.If you wanted 5 GBytes, then you should have selected 5,120 MBytes.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[sparent]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2012 05:42:47 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Windows hdd shrink]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The inbuilt windows disk management is nice but isnt useful in many cases, like you wont be able to shrink your drive if the data is scattered. Other utilities can optimize and shrink the drive easily.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[techx64]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 05:42:34 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Only have]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-340185-3511440]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[I just restored my OS win7 hme ed. to factory settings, due to possbl virus(es)... BUT, I forgot to create 2 partitions, one for OS and the other for my data.  Here is what I have:Disk 0 Basic 465.76 GB; where 100mb is OEM partition, 14.65GB Recovery, and 451Gb OS.  I would like to have a drive D: to restore all my data files (presently on external drive).  Is it too late?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[jakoska13@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2011 19:35:06 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Shrink a hard drive volume in Windows 7]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Compare with Windows XP, as we know the Disk Management in Windows 7 has added two new features extend/shrink volume. With the help of those two features, resize partition seems to be feasible.  ruby on rails developer]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Arron Smith]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 07:23:22 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[You need to read Ed Bott's &amp;quot;Windows 7 Inside-Out&amp;quot;]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-340185-3494152]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[It has a procedure for shrinking partitions when Disk Mgmt. tells you can shrink by only a fraction of the free space. Your &quot;tip&quot; is incomplete and should have noted this common problem and how to work around it. Sorry, 1* for this one.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[TuesdayNews]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 11:51:48 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[unshrinking a partition]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-340185-3433688]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[You need to use a third party tool to unshrink a partition.  I had to purchase  Acronis' Disk Director 11 Home in order to do that on my Win 7 laptop (went from triple boot to dual boot).  None of the free things worked, even though they had worked for other people in the past.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[spearson@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sat, 26 Mar 2011 07:34:13 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[unshrink]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-340185-3433411]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[how unshrink a drive... ????partition manager cannot do anything allocated volume]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[apkplus]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 06:16:16 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Use GParted]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I have done this twice using GParted. To do this, you need a copy of GParted and your Windows 7 DVD. Here is a link that I used to do this, and in my situations, it worked. Just make sure you follow the steps, especially the recovery steps, and you should be OK.http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/using-gparted-to-resize-your-windows-vista-partition/Hope this helps.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[T0nz]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 17 Jan 2011 08:44:37 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Had the same problem]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I had the same problem.  Apparently Windows 7 stores it's MFT or files related to it there, and it won't move that under normal circumstances nor will a number of defraggers move it.  I finally had to purchase software to shrink my Win 7 partition by more than 7 gig.  And that was on a 250 GB hard drive.Some people had good luck with various free remedies and tricks posted online (use Google), but none of them worked for me.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 12 Jan 2011 07:31:20 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[That SYSTEM partition]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[is your boot partition.  Don't touch it.  Leave the system files on the C: drive as well, or you will have to use the recovery partition again.From what you describe, there is no real need for you to shrink any partition on your hard drive.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[NickNielsen]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 12 Jan 2011 05:38:25 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[RE: Quick Tip: Shrink a hard drive volume in Windows 7]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I need more info. I have a SYSTEM, C: and D: drives. You didn't mention the system drive. It shows it is NTFS, status: Healthy (System, Active, Primary Partition); no drive letter. I use the C: drive (NTFS), status: Healthy (Boot,Page File, Crash Dump, Primary Partition), free space: 847.~~GB. Then, there is D:, Status: Healthy (Primary Partition). It holds a factory image of the OS. It works; I already had to use it. Windows 7 documentation states that you can't write to this drive or it won't work; but, I installed a program that put its files on D:, and it still worked. My OS (Win7) was pre-installed so I don't follow your example (above): &quot;As you can see, I have a recover disk on my test machine in addition to an Operating System partition and a Data partition. In general, you want to shrink a nonoperating system volume, so we will shrink the Data partition (D:)&quot;. Where does my new volume belong? Should I fix the C: drive files to not have system files?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[simpleonoff]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 23:00:39 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[RE: Quick Tip: Shrink a hard drive volume in Windows 7]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Since so many Computers come with a single drive, I would love to know how to do this on a single drive for a dual boot system. Hope you decide to help.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[brown.2005@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 22:31:03 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[That's what I do]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[With, Defraggler.Seems, though, I always end up with slightly higher used space; not, less.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[santeewelding]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 22:25:12 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I've not had that problem]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[with either  MyDefrag  or  DefragglerIf you have trouble with either, try booting into Safe Mode and running the defragmenter there.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[NickNielsen]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 22:17:19 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[RE: Quick Tip: Shrink a hard drive volume in Windows 7]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-340185-3407660]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[OK, how about when you;ve got tons of space on the drive, but there is that one PESKY file, or bunch of files, at the &quot;end&quot; of the drive. How to identify them and move them. Don't say defrag, because most defrag tools I know use the end of the drive for work space then often leave a few fragmented files sitting there.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Ron_007]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 20:57:15 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Other than initial partitioning]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I had to shrink a bunch of FAT32 partitions several years ago to make room for hidden recovery partitions.  I wound up using GParted.  I could do it all: shrink the existing partitions, then create and hide the new partitions without a reboot.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[NickNielsen]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2011 15:36:05 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Shrinking volumes]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-340185-3406965]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[When was the last time you had to manipulate drive partitions? Did you use a third-party tool or one of the built-in Windows tools?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark W. Kaelin]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2011 13:28:17 -0800</pubDate>
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