Re: Change capacity of hard disk image

I don't want to naysay, but if a disk is optimized where all the used blocks are contiguous at the beginning of the disk why can't diskpart or partition magic shrink the NTFS volume capacity?

This change should keep the disk from dynamically growing beyond the shrunken volume size.

Richard

Unseelie wrote:

There's no easy way to do it. About the easiest would be to make a new
drive image, ghost the old image and then restore it to the new one.
Why do you want less capacity? Is the drive already too big (in which
case, search this newsgroup for 'eraser' or 'precompactor'), or are you
afraid of it getting too big?

.

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