From: Marko Vojinovic vvmarko@gmail.com
On Tuesday 31 January 2012 05:34:21 Larry Martell wrote:
I can't even defrag the disk without admin rights :-( I'm going to make one more push to get admin, and if not, just go ahead and install CentOS and see what happens.
Beware that resizing a Windows partition which has not been defrag'ed is a Bad Idea, and works only if you are lucky enough that Windows didn't use the end-portion of the partition. Maybe it will work on a freshly installed and not-ever-seriously-used Windows, but it's a gamble.
I do not think that Windows basic defragging tool still moves all files bits to the begining of the partition... It believe it just puts the bits of the same file in a sequential order (maybe also put directories entries at the beginning?) and that's it. Other defrag utilities might do it though. I would check with a "disk mapper" that displays files location on a disk graphically (I think there is maybe one in the sysinternal tools)...
JD