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Can't shrink partition due to mystery file

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Mar 15, 202621098 views
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My system came with win xp. I installed Win7 in a separate partition, volume E. That was a while ago. I don't need xp anymore and now I want to shrink the C partition so that I can grow E. I deleted most files from C but since the boot manager is there I'm not totally deleting the partition. Howeve…

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This is not a mystery file. It's documented in loads of books and WWW sites about NTFS. This is one of several files — , , , , , and so forth — that are integral parts of the NTFS on-disc structures. They have these names by convention, but the name…

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