Moving data to lower sectors on an SSD without defragging

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Published on 2012-10-19T21:48:13Z Indexed on 2012/10/19 23:07 UTC
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I bought an Intel SSD drive a while back and now I want to dual-boot with it. But for some reason there are sectors near the end of the drive filled and I can’t seem to find a way to remove the data so that I can safely shrink the partition.

I know I have sectors near the end full because I am using Defraggler to analyze my drive (not to defrag it). I can see what files need to be moved/deleted but short of actually deleting some drivers and/or other necessary files, I am completely stuck. This the diskmap:

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I am only able to shave off that last 1.72GB of space from the drive which isn’t even enough for the most minimal Linux install.

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