How about copying your stubborn chunk W to V, login through a rescue disk (windows one, I guess) rename W Wold rename V W login again, rm Wold, run defrag, see if anything has improved, repeat until satisfied?
(the rescue disk part is of course because I assume these are system files, needed for the operation). I don't know what would happen to the OS loader, though, if any. But then, you were willing to re-install, so we might give it a shot. On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Eli Billauer wrote: > Hello again. > > To begin with, I've ran defrag a zillion of times. There is this > stubborn chunk that doesn't go away. > > And keep in mind that I don't need a resizing tool. I need a > reallocation of files (which is commonly done with defrag). > > Now Partition Magic: There has indeed been rumors about PM 8.0 being > capable of doing what I want, but since it costs something like $50 and > there is no trial version of it, I don't jump on it. I think I would get > too annoyed to buy it, just to find out that it runs the same old > Windows defrag, or doesn't support defrag at all. Same goes with Norton. > > So -- can anyone tell me for sure that some tool really does what I want? > > Thanks, > Eli > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://www.haifux.org) > To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://www.haifux.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
