Hi Nic. A bit of googling found me at the following link: http://www.file-recovery.com/recovery-understanding-file-system-ntfs.htm Long and short of it is that the NTFS partition layout wants certain components to be at defined offsets from the beginning of the partition. So in moving the partition by 200MB, it need to keep the partition contents in exactly the order in which it found them. Otherwise Windows is likely to chuck a major hissy fit and tell you that the partition is corrupted or missing. A bit like a library shelf. If you want to add books at the left end, you need to start by moving all the other books to the right, starting at the right hand end. You just can't move "A to C" to the end of "Z" end without getting the entire alphabet out of sequence. (Your librarian would quickly relieve you of a few choice bits of your anatomy.) Well it seems like a reasonable analogy. :-) Regards, Morrrie. -----Original Message----- From: luv-main [mailto:luv-main-bounces@luv.asn.au] On Behalf Of Nic Baxter via luv-main Sent: Thursday, 31 January 2019 12:16 PM To: luv-main@luv.asn.au Subject: moving partition Hi All I am moving a 1TB NTFS partition 200MB to the right using gparted and of course it is very slow. I don't understand why gparted is moving all of the data. Why not just move 200MB and add it to the end of the partition? My googling only tells me how to do it but not why. Cheers Nic _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list luv-main@luv.asn.au https://lists.luv.asn.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luv-main