On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 18:15:05 +0000, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 10:44:58 -0700, Collins Richey wrote: > > > YMMV, I tried that, but WinXP still left an unmoveable file in the > > middle of the disk even after turning off virtual memory. I'm not a > > windows expert, so I don't have a clue what the file was. So, I was > > left with the convenience of getting half the space freed quickly and > > the inconvenience of some unused space in the WinXP partition. > > I dealt with that by booting back into XP and running the defragmenter > again, which put the swap file back in the middle of the new partition. > then I could halve its size again. >
Now that's the answer. I'll keep this little gem for when I have to do that again! Fortunately I've got an extra disk ready to install, so I'll have a little more room to play with the disk that has WinXP on it. Learning w-a-y more than I ever wanted to know about WinXP <grin>. -- Collins -- [email protected] mailing list
