Thanks Lester.

Just to clarify: I will have to use the "Shrink File to" (file size) option to reduce the file size - the truncate options are just reorganizing the data...

Hmm,

I've backed up the tlog and ran shrink options: "Compress pages & truncate free space from end of file", and, "Truncate free space from the end of file", I then...

Thanks Matt. That's exactly what I wanted to know.

Firstly – Thanks! I have a similar problem (98GB Tlog file spanned over two disks) and this thread has helped greatly.

I’ve backed up the database and tlog file to tape...