Why some files are not movable in Windows 10How can I shrink a Windows 10 partition?How to prepare SSD drives...
Planar regular languages
What exactly is a marshrutka (маршрутка)?
why car dealer is insisting on loan v/s cash
What does a Light weapon mean mechanically?
Is a suit against a University Dorm for changing policies on a whim likely to succeed (USA)?
Difference in using Lightning Component <lighting:badge/> and Normal DOM with slds <span class="slds-badge"></span>? Which is Better and Why?
How to prepare for STEM graduate program while in industry?
Does deswegen have another meaning than "that is why"?
Is there a real-world mythological counterpart to WoW's "kill your gods for power" theme?
Output a Super Mario Image
Why some files are not movable in Windows 10
Is "you will become a subject matter expert" code for "you'll be working on your own 100% of the time"?
How do certain apps show new notifications when internet access is restricted to them?
Why does the speed of sound decrease at high altitudes although the air density decreases?
A simple problem about Rule
Do ibuprofen or paracetamol cause hearing loss?
Can I toggle Do Not Disturb on/off on my Mac as easily as I can on my iPhone?
Should you only use colons and periods in dialogues?
Diffraction of a wave passing through double slits
How to stabilise the bicycle seatpost and saddle when it is all the way up?
2000s space film where an alien species has almost wiped out the human race in a war
How does a simple logistic regression model achieve a 92% classification accuracy on MNIST?
Is there any way to land a rover on the Moon without using any thrusters?
If I want an interpretable model, are there methods other than Linear Regression?
Why some files are not movable in Windows 10
How can I shrink a Windows 10 partition?How to prepare SSD drives for shrinking partitions in Windows?Why doesn't the administrator mode protect Windows from malware?Does disabling the 'Windows Firewall' service actually work?Why are some files unmovable when shrinking a partition in WindowsCannot shrink C: partition: Not enough spacentfsresize says NTFS partition inconsistent but chkdsk doesn't find anythingWindows batch script X files from one directory to anotherFiles in secondary partition are invisibleWhy can I see files on the SD card on Android, but not on Windows?Disk space lost with partitioning (windows 10 - disk management)
.everyoneloves__top-leaderboard:empty,.everyoneloves__mid-leaderboard:empty,.everyoneloves__bot-mid-leaderboard:empty{ margin-bottom:0;
}
I'm trying to shrink my partition. In order to achieve the amount that I need, I'm using JKdefrag. I've seen that some files are marked red - not movable like hibernation.sys and pagefile.sys.
In the end, they are just files and I'm an administrator. The only thing I can do remove them by disabling.
Why are they not movable?
Note: I'm not asking how to disable the hibernation.sys and pagefile.sys etc. I'm looking for the reason why they are not movable.
windows windows-10
New contributor
|
show 3 more comments
I'm trying to shrink my partition. In order to achieve the amount that I need, I'm using JKdefrag. I've seen that some files are marked red - not movable like hibernation.sys and pagefile.sys.
In the end, they are just files and I'm an administrator. The only thing I can do remove them by disabling.
Why are they not movable?
Note: I'm not asking how to disable the hibernation.sys and pagefile.sys etc. I'm looking for the reason why they are not movable.
windows windows-10
New contributor
They are movable but not while booted into windows, you need a third party partitioning tool that you boot from, then any of them can be moved.
– Moab
7 hours ago
@Moab is there any name?
– kelalaka
7 hours ago
1
Possible duplicate of How can I shrink a Windows 10 partition?
– Moab
7 hours ago
@Moab I'm not asking how to shrink or remove them. There are tons of sites that mentions this. I'm just asking Why!
– kelalaka
7 hours ago
"I'm trying to shrink my partition" Because they are in use by Windows and some are protected, just cant move them while booted into windows.
– Moab
7 hours ago
|
show 3 more comments
I'm trying to shrink my partition. In order to achieve the amount that I need, I'm using JKdefrag. I've seen that some files are marked red - not movable like hibernation.sys and pagefile.sys.
In the end, they are just files and I'm an administrator. The only thing I can do remove them by disabling.
Why are they not movable?
Note: I'm not asking how to disable the hibernation.sys and pagefile.sys etc. I'm looking for the reason why they are not movable.
windows windows-10
New contributor
I'm trying to shrink my partition. In order to achieve the amount that I need, I'm using JKdefrag. I've seen that some files are marked red - not movable like hibernation.sys and pagefile.sys.
In the end, they are just files and I'm an administrator. The only thing I can do remove them by disabling.
Why are they not movable?
Note: I'm not asking how to disable the hibernation.sys and pagefile.sys etc. I'm looking for the reason why they are not movable.
windows windows-10
windows windows-10
New contributor
New contributor
edited 5 hours ago
kelalaka
New contributor
asked 9 hours ago
kelalakakelalaka
1114 bronze badges
1114 bronze badges
New contributor
New contributor
They are movable but not while booted into windows, you need a third party partitioning tool that you boot from, then any of them can be moved.
– Moab
7 hours ago
@Moab is there any name?
– kelalaka
7 hours ago
1
Possible duplicate of How can I shrink a Windows 10 partition?
– Moab
7 hours ago
@Moab I'm not asking how to shrink or remove them. There are tons of sites that mentions this. I'm just asking Why!
– kelalaka
7 hours ago
"I'm trying to shrink my partition" Because they are in use by Windows and some are protected, just cant move them while booted into windows.
– Moab
7 hours ago
|
show 3 more comments
They are movable but not while booted into windows, you need a third party partitioning tool that you boot from, then any of them can be moved.
– Moab
7 hours ago
@Moab is there any name?
– kelalaka
7 hours ago
1
Possible duplicate of How can I shrink a Windows 10 partition?
– Moab
7 hours ago
@Moab I'm not asking how to shrink or remove them. There are tons of sites that mentions this. I'm just asking Why!
– kelalaka
7 hours ago
"I'm trying to shrink my partition" Because they are in use by Windows and some are protected, just cant move them while booted into windows.
– Moab
7 hours ago
They are movable but not while booted into windows, you need a third party partitioning tool that you boot from, then any of them can be moved.
– Moab
7 hours ago
They are movable but not while booted into windows, you need a third party partitioning tool that you boot from, then any of them can be moved.
– Moab
7 hours ago
@Moab is there any name?
– kelalaka
7 hours ago
@Moab is there any name?
– kelalaka
7 hours ago
1
1
Possible duplicate of How can I shrink a Windows 10 partition?
– Moab
7 hours ago
Possible duplicate of How can I shrink a Windows 10 partition?
– Moab
7 hours ago
@Moab I'm not asking how to shrink or remove them. There are tons of sites that mentions this. I'm just asking Why!
– kelalaka
7 hours ago
@Moab I'm not asking how to shrink or remove them. There are tons of sites that mentions this. I'm just asking Why!
– kelalaka
7 hours ago
"I'm trying to shrink my partition" Because they are in use by Windows and some are protected, just cant move them while booted into windows.
– Moab
7 hours ago
"I'm trying to shrink my partition" Because they are in use by Windows and some are protected, just cant move them while booted into windows.
– Moab
7 hours ago
|
show 3 more comments
2 Answers
2
active
oldest
votes
Some system files cannot be moved after the system boots, such as the page-file
and registry database files. They are exclusively locked by Windows itself, so cannot
be moved or directly updated while Windows is running.
For example, while Windows is running the page-file is referred-to by its direct
cluster number on the disk.
Since swap is a critical operation affecting system performance, Windows does not have
the time to search the disk and folder metadata when it wants to do or undo a swap.
Another reason for making these files unmovable is that they are critical to the
operation of Windows, so Windows protects them to the limit and does not allow
any access that does not go through its dedicated utilities or API.
Any product that is capable of moving these files will require a reboot in order
to can get access to the disk before Windows is launched.
+1 for the second paragraph.
– kelalaka
6 hours ago
add a comment
|
A cool story by Raymond Chen:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/technet-magazine/cc137769(v=msdn.10)
In short:
Again, it's another chicken-and-egg problem: to load the hibernation file, you need the file system driver, but the file system driver is in the hibernation file. If you keep the hibernation file in the root directory of the boot drive, the miniature file system driver can be used instead.
add a comment
|
Your Answer
StackExchange.ready(function() {
var channelOptions = {
tags: "".split(" "),
id: "3"
};
initTagRenderer("".split(" "), "".split(" "), channelOptions);
StackExchange.using("externalEditor", function() {
// Have to fire editor after snippets, if snippets enabled
if (StackExchange.settings.snippets.snippetsEnabled) {
StackExchange.using("snippets", function() {
createEditor();
});
}
else {
createEditor();
}
});
function createEditor() {
StackExchange.prepareEditor({
heartbeatType: 'answer',
autoActivateHeartbeat: false,
convertImagesToLinks: true,
noModals: true,
showLowRepImageUploadWarning: true,
reputationToPostImages: 10,
bindNavPrevention: true,
postfix: "",
imageUploader: {
brandingHtml: "Powered by u003ca class="icon-imgur-white" href="https://imgur.com/"u003eu003c/au003e",
contentPolicyHtml: "User contributions licensed under u003ca href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"u003ecc by-sa 4.0 with attribution requiredu003c/au003e u003ca href="https://stackoverflow.com/legal/content-policy"u003e(content policy)u003c/au003e",
allowUrls: true
},
onDemand: true,
discardSelector: ".discard-answer"
,immediatelyShowMarkdownHelp:true
});
}
});
kelalaka is a new contributor. Be nice, and check out our Code of Conduct.
Sign up or log in
StackExchange.ready(function () {
StackExchange.helpers.onClickDraftSave('#login-link');
});
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
StackExchange.ready(
function () {
StackExchange.openid.initPostLogin('.new-post-login', 'https%3a%2f%2fsuperuser.com%2fquestions%2f1482018%2fwhy-some-files-are-not-movable-in-windows-10%23new-answer', 'question_page');
}
);
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
2 Answers
2
active
oldest
votes
2 Answers
2
active
oldest
votes
active
oldest
votes
active
oldest
votes
Some system files cannot be moved after the system boots, such as the page-file
and registry database files. They are exclusively locked by Windows itself, so cannot
be moved or directly updated while Windows is running.
For example, while Windows is running the page-file is referred-to by its direct
cluster number on the disk.
Since swap is a critical operation affecting system performance, Windows does not have
the time to search the disk and folder metadata when it wants to do or undo a swap.
Another reason for making these files unmovable is that they are critical to the
operation of Windows, so Windows protects them to the limit and does not allow
any access that does not go through its dedicated utilities or API.
Any product that is capable of moving these files will require a reboot in order
to can get access to the disk before Windows is launched.
+1 for the second paragraph.
– kelalaka
6 hours ago
add a comment
|
Some system files cannot be moved after the system boots, such as the page-file
and registry database files. They are exclusively locked by Windows itself, so cannot
be moved or directly updated while Windows is running.
For example, while Windows is running the page-file is referred-to by its direct
cluster number on the disk.
Since swap is a critical operation affecting system performance, Windows does not have
the time to search the disk and folder metadata when it wants to do or undo a swap.
Another reason for making these files unmovable is that they are critical to the
operation of Windows, so Windows protects them to the limit and does not allow
any access that does not go through its dedicated utilities or API.
Any product that is capable of moving these files will require a reboot in order
to can get access to the disk before Windows is launched.
+1 for the second paragraph.
– kelalaka
6 hours ago
add a comment
|
Some system files cannot be moved after the system boots, such as the page-file
and registry database files. They are exclusively locked by Windows itself, so cannot
be moved or directly updated while Windows is running.
For example, while Windows is running the page-file is referred-to by its direct
cluster number on the disk.
Since swap is a critical operation affecting system performance, Windows does not have
the time to search the disk and folder metadata when it wants to do or undo a swap.
Another reason for making these files unmovable is that they are critical to the
operation of Windows, so Windows protects them to the limit and does not allow
any access that does not go through its dedicated utilities or API.
Any product that is capable of moving these files will require a reboot in order
to can get access to the disk before Windows is launched.
Some system files cannot be moved after the system boots, such as the page-file
and registry database files. They are exclusively locked by Windows itself, so cannot
be moved or directly updated while Windows is running.
For example, while Windows is running the page-file is referred-to by its direct
cluster number on the disk.
Since swap is a critical operation affecting system performance, Windows does not have
the time to search the disk and folder metadata when it wants to do or undo a swap.
Another reason for making these files unmovable is that they are critical to the
operation of Windows, so Windows protects them to the limit and does not allow
any access that does not go through its dedicated utilities or API.
Any product that is capable of moving these files will require a reboot in order
to can get access to the disk before Windows is launched.
answered 7 hours ago
harrymcharrymc
284k16 gold badges302 silver badges615 bronze badges
284k16 gold badges302 silver badges615 bronze badges
+1 for the second paragraph.
– kelalaka
6 hours ago
add a comment
|
+1 for the second paragraph.
– kelalaka
6 hours ago
+1 for the second paragraph.
– kelalaka
6 hours ago
+1 for the second paragraph.
– kelalaka
6 hours ago
add a comment
|
A cool story by Raymond Chen:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/technet-magazine/cc137769(v=msdn.10)
In short:
Again, it's another chicken-and-egg problem: to load the hibernation file, you need the file system driver, but the file system driver is in the hibernation file. If you keep the hibernation file in the root directory of the boot drive, the miniature file system driver can be used instead.
add a comment
|
A cool story by Raymond Chen:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/technet-magazine/cc137769(v=msdn.10)
In short:
Again, it's another chicken-and-egg problem: to load the hibernation file, you need the file system driver, but the file system driver is in the hibernation file. If you keep the hibernation file in the root directory of the boot drive, the miniature file system driver can be used instead.
add a comment
|
A cool story by Raymond Chen:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/technet-magazine/cc137769(v=msdn.10)
In short:
Again, it's another chicken-and-egg problem: to load the hibernation file, you need the file system driver, but the file system driver is in the hibernation file. If you keep the hibernation file in the root directory of the boot drive, the miniature file system driver can be used instead.
A cool story by Raymond Chen:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/technet-magazine/cc137769(v=msdn.10)
In short:
Again, it's another chicken-and-egg problem: to load the hibernation file, you need the file system driver, but the file system driver is in the hibernation file. If you keep the hibernation file in the root directory of the boot drive, the miniature file system driver can be used instead.
answered 8 hours ago
HoDHoD
1,9705 silver badges15 bronze badges
1,9705 silver badges15 bronze badges
add a comment
|
add a comment
|
kelalaka is a new contributor. Be nice, and check out our Code of Conduct.
kelalaka is a new contributor. Be nice, and check out our Code of Conduct.
kelalaka is a new contributor. Be nice, and check out our Code of Conduct.
kelalaka is a new contributor. Be nice, and check out our Code of Conduct.
Thanks for contributing an answer to Super User!
- Please be sure to answer the question. Provide details and share your research!
But avoid …
- Asking for help, clarification, or responding to other answers.
- Making statements based on opinion; back them up with references or personal experience.
To learn more, see our tips on writing great answers.
Sign up or log in
StackExchange.ready(function () {
StackExchange.helpers.onClickDraftSave('#login-link');
});
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
StackExchange.ready(
function () {
StackExchange.openid.initPostLogin('.new-post-login', 'https%3a%2f%2fsuperuser.com%2fquestions%2f1482018%2fwhy-some-files-are-not-movable-in-windows-10%23new-answer', 'question_page');
}
);
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
Sign up or log in
StackExchange.ready(function () {
StackExchange.helpers.onClickDraftSave('#login-link');
});
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
Sign up or log in
StackExchange.ready(function () {
StackExchange.helpers.onClickDraftSave('#login-link');
});
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
Sign up or log in
StackExchange.ready(function () {
StackExchange.helpers.onClickDraftSave('#login-link');
});
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
They are movable but not while booted into windows, you need a third party partitioning tool that you boot from, then any of them can be moved.
– Moab
7 hours ago
@Moab is there any name?
– kelalaka
7 hours ago
1
Possible duplicate of How can I shrink a Windows 10 partition?
– Moab
7 hours ago
@Moab I'm not asking how to shrink or remove them. There are tons of sites that mentions this. I'm just asking Why!
– kelalaka
7 hours ago
"I'm trying to shrink my partition" Because they are in use by Windows and some are protected, just cant move them while booted into windows.
– Moab
7 hours ago