Defragging Windows with Ubuntu installed

Mark Haney mhaney at ercbroadband.org
Fri Dec 5 21:33:08 UTC 2008


W. D. Allen wrote:
> Will defragging Windows XP with Ubuntu installed WITHIN Windows result 
> in either Windows or Ubuntu being trashed?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> W. D. Allen
> ballensr at roadrunner.com
> 
> end
> 
> 

Not unless you've got a ghost in the machine. I triple-boot mine 
(gentoo, kubuntu, XP Pro) and defrag windows all the time without trouble.


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Mark Haney
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