How do I move the physical location of $MFTMirr, to allow resizing the partition?
Solution 1:
The mentioned PerfectDisk can do this, actually. You just need to know that you must select Boot Time in the main screen, which will perform an offline defrag or a on-next-boot defrag (depending on whether this is the current OS disk).
See also this related question by me, and this little blog that I wrote, containing more details on how this all comes together.
Solution 2:
I am a dummy. and it took me 2 days to finally shrink my C: sys volume (WINDOWS 7). the solution I found is terribly simple.
- I downloaded the free app PerfectDisc, installed
- on 'Global Settings' I selected and ticked: PerfectDisk manages book and prefetch files'
- right click on C: - Drive preferences - select: 'Default optimization method' = 'Prep for Shrink' and 'Free Space search method' = 'Forward'
- now start defragging (play button)
- try also to turn on 'boot time defrag', and press the 'boot time defrag' button in the upper menu (requires restart)
Good Luck everybody !!! what a relief