Le mar 31 jan 2012 07:14:25 CET, John Doe a écrit: > From: Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko at 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)... Windows defrag doesn't "compact" the FileSystem ; ntfsresize does if necessary. Larry should have a look at "man ntfsresize" : http://linux.die.net/man/8/ntfsresize -- Philippe Naudin