Re: defragmenting/resizing
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On Friday 15 August 2003 09:54 am, Bilal Ahmad wrote:
> I have bought recently a HP Pavilion ze5300 laptop w/ a 40G hard drive (38G
> actually), and with Windows XP Pro. I want to partition the hard drive so
> that I leave 18G for XP Pro and 20G for Debian. Windows Disk Defragmenter
> leaves a chunk of files right in the middle of the disk:
>
>
> /////*****************_________________*****_______________________________
>_____
>
>
>
> /// ---- System files
> *** ---- Contiguous files
> ___ ---- Free space
>
>
>
> I have tried Diskeeper as well (including at boot time), and couldn't get
> those files to move towards the beginning. In the notes somewhere it says
> that Diskeeper won't move files that are in the Windows exclusions lists,
> such as the space for hibernate mode.
>
> Is there another way to get the those files to move towards the beginning
> without having to wipe out the whole disk first? Any help would be greatly
> appreciated. (PS: This will be my first attempt at installing a linux
> system. There is no floppy disk in this computer; It has a DVD-ROM/CD-RW,
> however.)
>
> Thanks.
> Bilal
Greetings Bilal:
I experienced the same problem as you when I bought my used Gateway laptop
with a 10Gb hard drive. I tried to move those files to the front of the
drive, but it wouldn't work! Finally, I acquired a copy of Partition Magic.
I think it was version 7.0 or something. It *will* move those files
carefully to the front of the drive and then part it so you can then begin
the process of installing Gnu/Linux on the freed area.
I was very nervous as I proceeded to use the program, but after reading all
the documentation that came with it, I was very pleased to see how well it
did the job. M$-XP never complained about it after it was all over. I was
then able to install my favorite OS (Libranet) on the 5Gb partition. Still,
you have much more space than I have, so it should be much easier for you!
heehee.
As far as I know, Partition Magic and one other commercial program like it are
all that will modify an NTFS drive. The free software that I looked at was
only able to modify the older FAT style of M$ file formats :( Hopefully,
this will change in the near future! Still, it has been over a year since I
did this, perhaps the free alternatives are able to slice an NTFS drive
today.
Good luck to you. Wishing you well.
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