Defrag to move the unmovable? Best scheduled app?

[dany2010]

Just trying to shrink down some partitions to prepare a local backup drive which I can then export to delete all partitions.

 

Both partitions are saying they can only be shrunk minimally because of unmovable files.

 

I've never needed to defrag since early xp so not used third party defrag apps.

 

Can anyone recommend anything to do a proper defrag that I can schedule from windows schedular. If poss the program should restart the server automatically when finished so I don't have to visit the site.

 

Something safe to use on a server.

 

Thanks

[Chuckster]

You can schedule this easily using GPP. I'm not in front of a computer to give you this at hand. But I do know it is something like this: defrag.exe c: -f

[dany2010]

Just tried a scheduled task with defrag command but windows has loaded and the defrag is still not finished so guessing it's not going to move the data still.

Will check in the morning.

[Arthur]

defrag.exe c: -f

I think the -f should be /x.

 

/X      Perform free space consolidation on the specified volumes.

[BHMS]

The unmovable files include the pagefile and the hibernation file. Disabling both of these will allow you to shrink it further. Just re-enable them after.

[dany2010]

The unmovable files include the pagefile and the hibernation file. Disabling both of these will allow you to shrink it further. Just re-enable them after.

 

Hibernation disabled by hyper-v, checked the page files and it seems only the C drive is setup for this.

 

Noticed the drive had shadow files enabled. Tried disabling but still no joy.

 

About 150 gb unused space that can't be shrunk