You could try Power Quest's Partition Magic.  I've used it several times 
on W2K & XP machines and have never had a problem (knock on wood).

Of course it's non-free software.

-Erik

Jim Crumley wrote:

> 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?
>  


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