In XP can not get continuous partition.

[Christoph Georgi]

Afaik these are some system files that you can't move with a defrag
program.. But afair you can still just partition the hard drive; the
respective program will move those files out of the way. (well, I never
had problems with just partitioning my hard drive no matter what the
defrag's output was..)

But please correct me if I'm wrong before someone looses data ;)


christoph


Holiday wrote:
> I'm planning on installing ubuntu to my laptop by first using the Knoppix 
> partitioning utility. I'm currently using XP Home's defrag utility to get 
> the drive into shape. I've managed to free up about 2/3 of the 40G drive, 
> and defragged to get a nice big empty space. EXCEPT! Except that right in 
> the middle of that space is a swath which sometimes appears as green 
> (unmovable) and sometimes as blue (contiguous).
> 
> I've set the swap file to 0, rebooted, run defrag from safe mode - this 
> makes no difference. The thing won't budge.
> 
> Any ideas what this area is, what I can do? 
> 
> I'm assuming this will seriously affect my ability to create a non-xp 
> partition. Is this assumption correct?
> 
> 

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