Partition magic....best tool ive found for windows environments Dan Lansing -----Original Message----- From: Jim Crumley [mailto:crumley at belka.space.umn.edu] Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 12:57 PM To: TCLUG list Subject: [TCLUG] Defragmenting under Windows XP So I finally got my new laptop ( a Thinkpad R40), and I am trying to install Debian dual boot along with Windows XP. At the moment I am having a problem with defragmenting and resizing the XP ntfs partition. The partition is relatively empty ( ~10 % usage), but there is a file or cluster of files in the middle of the partition that XP's defrag tool doesn't move. According to the defragger these files are normal, contiguous (blue) files not unmovable (green) files, but I can't figure out how to move them. Due to these files ntsfresize will only let me free up about half of this partition, when I would like to free up more. At first I thought these files might be mft reserved space, but I tried filling the disk with empty files, and these files in the middle did not disappear like mft reserved space is supposed to. Also, I don't have installation media for XP, just a recovery partition, so I can't just re-install XP. Any ideas? Does anyone know any tools that would move these files? -- Jim Crumley |Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List (TCLUG) crumley at fields.space.umn.edu |Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Ruthless Debian Zealot |http://www.mn-linux.org/ Never laugh at live dragons |Dmitry's free,Jon's next? http://faircopyright.org _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list