In XP can not get continuous partition.

[Holiday]

On 9/20/05, Christoph Georgi <christoph.georgi at web.de> wrote:
> 
> 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 ;)



Thank you for your reply. I will not blame you if I get into trouble.

When I get home in a couple of hours, I will try resizing the partition. 
I am backed up, but it would be nice to know what that thing is.

Perhaps there is another tool that will give me more information. I remember 
a few years ago using Norton defrag and being able to get the actual 
filename in a flyover. 

But I will NOT put that evil creature on any machine of mine ever again. 




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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