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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon T13nn3s

Can't Free up Unused Space

Open bsonnek opened this issue 4 years ago • 2 comments

I can't seem to free up space on some VHDX User profile drives. The VHDX shows a size of 19 GB sitting on the network drive When I mount the VHDX it shows a total of 12 GB of Used Space. I should be able to shrink the VHDX down to 14 GB at least. Is there something I'm missing? I ran the defrag, then zerofreespace, and then the sDelete commands. I still cannot shrink it down.

In addition to the info above. I had to mount the VHDX on a server with Hyper-V installed. I then used Disk Management to "Shrink Volume" to resize it to the minimum allowed. I then ran the ShrinkFSL.exe application to reduce the size of the VHDX File on my network drive.

bsonnek avatar Jun 25 '20 04:06 bsonnek

Hi, thanks for this information. Are you also experiencing this issue with your other VHDX files?

T13nn3s avatar Jul 07 '20 20:07 T13nn3s

I switched to the version from the tech net site and it fixed all of my major issues. I was able to successfully run the script on a folder of vhdx files with no issues. The only issue I have now is if I run it on a single vhdx it won’t unmount when finished.

bsonnek avatar Jul 08 '20 11:07 bsonnek