Re: fips won't move hidden
Hi Brian:
Check your defragging program to see if there are any options. You need to move all
files to the front of the hard drive. I've had Nortons utility which does this easily.
Dean
"Brian J. Stults" wrote:
> I'm having trouble repartitioning a drive with a single FAT32 partition
> with FIPS. I defragged, did a clean boot, and ran it, but it gives an
> error that there are hidden or read-only files at the end of the
> partition. I tried disabling the swap file (which I probably should
> have done anyway.) That didn't help. Then I did "dir c:\ /s /a:h" to
> find all the hidden files and change them. That took forever and still
> didn't work. I don't want to shell out the money for Partition Magic.
> Does anyone have any suggestions?
>
> Thanks.
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> Brian J. Stults
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> Department of Sociology
> University at Albany - SUNY
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