The 03.05.24 at 09:41, zentara wrote:
Assuming you have enough free space to play with: Dosn't copying data off to another partition, formatting the windows partition, then recopying it back, reorganize the data like defrag? I guess you might loose proper booting of the windows partition, but a quick sys could fix that.
It should work. There is no real need to reformat, just delete everything, files and dirs, except those marked +S (system) - you will need to use mattrib to detect them. This way even the C: drive can be done, and it will boot. Only it will not be "optimised" as windows defrag programs do, meaning that files will not be sorted as they do (exe files first, data files last, and such things). One last thing: use "mattrib -P" to redo windows filesystem attributes - read about it on the man page. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson