Disk Management problem; " The service cannot be started,"
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I am trying to shrink a volume on Windows 7 Professional using Disk Management but get the following error: Virtual Disk Manager The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled or because it has no enabled devices associated with it. The disk I am trying to shrink is not the system dis…
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Fix for: Disk Management problem; " The service cannot be started,"
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Open a command prompt as administrator and run: enables you to start the defragsvc, beware if you have a schedule in effect. starts the defrag service so disk management can figure out how to reallocate files when you shrink the volume.
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