Sunny wrote:
Hi guys,
I need to install SuSE on a laptop's 40GB HDD. Unfortunately, even I freed enough space and defrag it from XP, it still keeps some files near the end of the disk. I tried a trial version of Diskeeper as well, still the same - no one wants to move these files to the free space in the middle of the disk.
Do you know any good (and possibly free) tool to do that. Or at least - something which can show me which files are there, so I can copy them over the network and free the space?
Cheers
-- Svetoslav Milenov (Sunny)
It may not seem a natural answer but possibly a good one in my opinion, would possibly be Ghost. Your root need is to resize not defrag. Since you are doing all of this data moving it would not hurt to have a backup image of you Windows OS. If you ghost the partition to file, then blow the file back (there is the opportunity to pick the destination partition size when blowing it back down) you will get..... 1) a resize 2) a back up when you pushed the data to file 3) Ghost will write the files to disk optimized and then write the file table. a Defrag! So if you actually boot into windows again it will be extremely defraged. Also useful when your defrag programs tell you that you don't have space to defrag... Drive Image pro or any imaging software that is file system or file aware as opposed to a straight block copy...... may also accomplish this as efficiently. Imaging does not at first appear to be the solution to a resizing problem but you get to kill 3 things at once. Luke Watson