Viewing types fo files and location on hard drive?

[Walter]

A couple days ago I posted a question about partitioning a large hard drive.
I am having trouble getting Disk Management to break the hard drive into
small partitions. I have a 750G drive with one partition and when I try to
shrink it Vista only allows me to make it 500G. People on this newsgroup
have posted that the problem is that some non-movable files have been
created in places on the drive and that I need a third party partitioning
app to find those files and move them to do the partitioning.

I will probably buy one -Acronis Disk Director. But before I buy I'd like
to view those files.

Is there a free app or something built into Vista that will allow me to see
a graphic of where those files are on the disk that are causing the
problem?

regfman

 

[Walter]

You can use Auslogics Disk Defragmenter to get a idea of the placement
of these allocated files on the hard drive. You can see the space gap
between the defragmented sections as it while defraging.

'Auslogics - Download Auslogics Disk Defrag'
(http://www.auslogics.com/en/software/disk-defrag/download)

The unmovable files are the System Retore Point, Virtual Page Memory,
etc. files. You will not be able to view them like normal files.

Hope this helps some,
Shawn

I downloaded and tried it. A screen shot would be an eaiser way to report
what I am seeing but it'd say that I see where the green allocated space is
stopping about 500G into the 750G with all grey unallocated space following
it. There is a huge amount of grey unallowcated space between the first
small group (probably the OS install) at the beginning of the disk and
another larger group that starts up with a yellow "system metadata" about
half way through the disk.

Regardless of what I think I see I guess I need third party tools to move
unmovable files so that I can make smaller partitions.