The good news are that a good defragmentation application exists: It's O&O Defrag, available for a 30-day complete trial at http://www.oo-software.com/en/index.html. 30 days should be enough to repartition, I think.
This tools offers several defragmentation algorithms, and it can also defragment in boot-time, thus solving the problem of page files and other similar problems. And the best thing: It tells you which files occupies the cluster. In short, it's a goodie.
The back side is that it hasn't got any "prepare-for-resize" option.
Anyhow, for me it didn't work. Some clusters, marked as "system" couldn't be moved. At this point I realized that I've played too much with a new system. It may be damaged already. So I went for a fresh start.
Install gurus, wherever you are, you won't have this option!
Algorithm experts, do you detect an infinite loop? ;)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?
But then, you were willing to re-install, so we might give it a shot.Ah, I was just in the middle with fdisk when I got this. Starting all over again. The problems I run into from here are nevertheless exotic, but totally off-topic.
Thanks to all who tried, Eli
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