Le mar 31 jan 2012 05:34:21 CET, Larry Martell a écrit: > ... > 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. You can check if there is enough available disk space without defragmenting, with ntfsresize : ntfsresize -i /dev/sda1 # or whatever is your ntfs partition ntfsresize -n --size <new size> /dev/sda1 These two commands only show/test what can be done, without changing anything on the disk. If you feel ready for the change : fdisk -l /dev/sda # and keep a copy of the output ntfsresize --size <new size> /dev/sda1 # this time without -n fdisk /dev/sda Delete the old sda1 and recreate it with the same start and a size at least sufficient to hold the resized ntfs. Don't forget to change the type of the partition, and activate it. ntfsresize -fi /dev/sda1 If it reports any problem, undo what has been done with fdisk. Restart Windows and let it do its FS check. This has worked for me, but as always : ymmv, be careful. -- Philippe Naudin