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Someone from Microsoft told me you can always shrink down the partition the most it can, is that true?
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Someone from Microsoft told me today that you can always shrink down a partition to the most it can (Update: by using the Win7 or Vista disk management tool) -- for example, when there are 120GB of free space on C:, then you can for sure shrink it by 120GB. Is that true? My experience is that you c…
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No, this is incorrect : You can only shrink a partition until some file at the end of the partition blocks you. For example, if a file occupies sector number x, then you can only shrink the partition down to x sectors, no matter even if all the sect…
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