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I need to shrink volume on which my windows resides. Following How to shrink Windows 7 boot partition with unmovable files I discovered that the file which "blocks" my volume from shrinking is

\System Volume Information{eb2336fd-5fc7-11e7-adc5-185e0f8922b2}{3808876b-c176-4e48-b7ae-04046e6cc752}::$DATA

Is it possible to move it and shrink the disk?

EDIT: My question concerns SSD hard drive.

Greg Olszewski
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  • I know that [Defraggler](https://www.piriform.com/defraggler) has a tool called "Compact free space" or something like that. Basically, it shifts every occupied space at the begining of the partition. However, since `System Volume Information` is a system forler, I don't know if this will work. – Nathan.Eilisha Shiraini Jul 05 '17 at 08:42
  • Thanks for info Nathan, I forgot to mention this is SSD hard drive - Defraggler is (as far as I know) HDD defragmentation tool. I have already tried Windows Defragmentation tool and it didn't help. I have edited my question accordingly. – Greg Olszewski Jul 05 '17 at 09:24
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    This should still apply to an SSD. We are not trying to defragment to improve performance (which makes sense on an HDD, but not on an SSD), we are trying to shove all occupied blocks to the same end of the *physical* disk. This makes sense for both HDDs and SSDs, since data has to be located *somewhere* on the disk in both cases. – Nathan.Eilisha Shiraini Jul 05 '17 at 09:47
  • I am also having this problem! – The Floating Brain Sep 21 '21 at 05:09

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