Disk Defragmenter

[Guest Brian Albright]

A picture is worth a thousand words.

 

http://img407.imageshack.us/my.php?image=defragot4.jpg

 

After defragging about 10 times with 2 different defragmenting

softwares, the picture is what I'm left with. almost all of the files

are in the first half of the hard drive, while there is one file (or a

cluster of smaller files) that isn't.

 

I'm wondering if there is a utility out there that will allow me to

move this file closer to the rest of them, or at least be able to know

what file/files it is (so I can delete them if they aren't important).

 

I'm planning on using the second half of this drive as a Linux

partition for work purposes, and I can't repartition the drive with

this file in the way!

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RE: Disk Defragmenter

 

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"Brian Albright" wrote:

> A picture is worth a thousand words.

>

> http://img407.imageshack.us/my.php?image=defragot4.jpg

>

> After defragging about 10 times with 2 different defragmenting

> softwares, the picture is what I'm left with. almost all of the files

> are in the first half of the hard drive, while there is one file (or a

> cluster of smaller files) that isn't.

>

> I'm wondering if there is a utility out there that will allow me to

> move this file closer to the rest of them, or at least be able to know

> what file/files it is (so I can delete them if they aren't important).

>

> I'm planning on using the second half of this drive as a Linux

> partition for work purposes, and I can't repartition the drive with

> this file in the way!

>

[Guest Alias]

Re: Disk Defragmenter

 

Brian Albright wrote:

> A picture is worth a thousand words.

>

> http://img407.imageshack.us/my.php?image=defragot4.jpg

>

> After defragging about 10 times with 2 different defragmenting

> softwares, the picture is what I'm left with. almost all of the files

> are in the first half of the hard drive, while there is one file (or a

> cluster of smaller files) that isn't.

>

> I'm wondering if there is a utility out there that will allow me to

> move this file closer to the rest of them, or at least be able to know

> what file/files it is (so I can delete them if they aren't important).

>

> I'm planning on using the second half of this drive as a Linux

> partition for work purposes, and I can't repartition the drive with

> this file in the way!

 

Yes you can.

 

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[Guest Leythos]

Re: Disk Defragmenter

 

In article <312ede32-d450-4067-b8c4-fb02e30adc22

@u69g2000hse.googlegroups.com>, Albright.Brian@gmail.com says...

> A picture is worth a thousand words.

>

> http://img407.imageshack.us/my.php?image=defragot4.jpg

>

> After defragging about 10 times with 2 different defragmenting

> softwares, the picture is what I'm left with. almost all of the files

> are in the first half of the hard drive, while there is one file (or a

> cluster of smaller files) that isn't.

>

> I'm wondering if there is a utility out there that will allow me to

> move this file closer to the rest of them, or at least be able to know

> what file/files it is (so I can delete them if they aren't important).

>

> I'm planning on using the second half of this drive as a Linux

> partition for work purposes, and I can't repartition the drive with

> this file in the way!

 

You appear to be confusing "Defragment" and "Packing" the drive.

 

To be honest, you don't really want to pack the drive if you plan on

actually using any OS, but, when you want to shrink it to dual boot, one

of the best tools is JKDEFRAG in safe mode - it has a pack option and

you can limit the slack space it creates too.

 

In your case, rather than shrinking the drive, why not spend a little

and purchase another disk drive, install it, then pick the boot order

from your computers BIOS, leaving this first disk untouched and limiting

the number of problems you will have?

 

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