defragment before resizing, then re-ordering: how to do so?

[Urk_Alter]

Hi all!
 
I'm going to resize a two partition hard disk, the first one of about 6GB (primary), and the second one of about 226GB (primary, bootable).
 
The new layout should be a first partition of about 13GB (again, primary), then a shrinked 220GB primary, bootable one.
 
In order to so I'd like to free space as much as possible at the beginning of the second partition, then resizing shrinking it and enlarging the first partition as said above.
 
Eventually I would move all files and dirs on the beginning of the "new", shrinked second partition and then I think perform a System Disk Monthly script to sort them out.
 
As far as you know, which scripts (or tools) I should use in order to achieve these goals?
 
Thanks in advance for any help, and sorry for my not so good english.
 
Regards, Luca

[jeroen]

See the free Gnome Partition Editor for resizing partitions. It is specially designed to change the size of partitions and will move the data by itself without the need of a tool such as MyDefrag.

[Urk_Alter]

Maybe GParted is not an option, dealing with NTFS partitions, due to the frequent issues with the Microsoft repair disk.

Any further thoughts about?
 
Regards, Luca

[Urk_Alter]

Well, formally I've fulfilled my goals.
Practically I'm rather disappointed.
 
I've disabled in my Windows 7 64 Ultimate the restore protection, the hibernation function and eventually the pagefile; then I've used Partition Wizard 7.1 to resize the second partition at boot, and finally I aligned this shrinked partition with Paragon Alignment Tool 2.0.
All went fine, at least apparently.
 
But performance seems slower than those with the original layout.
 
I've run also MyDefrag, but I have started another thread about this task, without gaining any noticeable improvement. Any thought?
 
Thanks in advance for any help.
 
Regards, Luca

[woodfold]

I have a similar layout of 2 partitions on my drive, but I have the boot partition at the beginning, not at the end, of the drive. You've moved you boot partition further away from the outside edge (fastest) toward the center (slower).

[Darlis]

Why did you use an alignment tool? This would be only useful for SSDs, RAID and the new HDDs with 4K Sectors. From what you have posted so far, you don't seem to have anything of these.

I agree with woodfold, if you wanted a fast system you shouldn't have moved your system files further to the end of the disk. Also note that Superfetch has to "adapt" itself to the changes and will have maximize boot speed again after 5 restarts. Also, if you haven't measured the boot time with a stopwatch or something, you can't be sure if the system is now slower or faster than before.