On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC) wrote:
> I found this with Google - "Not many defraggers leave the end space clean;
> actually, I've only found one, O&O Defrag(www.oo-software.com) that does so
> with NTFS..."
>
> Anyone have any bright ideas? Does this problem disappear with larger hard
> drives?
>
> FYI - You may be wondering why I did not allocate the required partition
> size when installing W2k. My experiments are trying to find a way to
> repartition PC's which are built with an image (which does not give the
> partition size option at install)
>
I don't know about 2000, but XP barfs if it it not given 8.5+ gig to play
with.
I also found that XP will install on a fat32 partition that had been
prepared for it despite my laptop installation CDs insisting on taking
over the whole HDD.
Phil.
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