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Terry Hill wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I have a windows XP machine for the other half and I to play games on, > and, having shoved a new gfx card in it, and would like to take a pop > at dual booting ubuntu to see what Cedega is like (so I can lose XP > altogether). > > I defragged the HD, and again, and then a third time, but there's > still chunks of blue all the way to the edge. It seems the XP defrag > tool doesn't shove the data to the start end of the disk to facilitate > resizing any more. > > Anyone know of a good and reliable OSS tool out there that will resize > whilst squeezing the data a little? > > Tel. > > I have done this many times on M$ machines and found if you Defrag again, and again, again up to 40 or 50 times! Eventually you get all the B***dy M$ stuff in one half of the disk, even the "unmovable stuff" Then using the free space to install the Linux OS. I have one a few occasions resorted to deleting the page file (should be 1 1/2 times the ram at least in size) to make defrag work but do make sure Windows can recreate this again at boot up or it runs even slower than before! -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html