Much quicker (& safer, no doubt) is to truncate the XP partition beyond all of its stored data (NB including "unmoveable" files, as XP can describe after defragmentation), & avoid all that. I.e. leave XP enough space to function properly - I believe it has a minimum partition requirement to work (incl. swap).
On my laptop's 40GB hdd, this was around the 10/12GB mark - YMMV.
Christopher Sawtell wrote:
On Sat, 29 May 2004 12:21, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
This operation took 3 hours to complete.This is obviously unacceptable!
Have you _any_ idea why?
More thoughts. (I know Our Emily disapproves of following up to ones own postings)
a) Antique, slow disc? what do:- hdparm -T /dev/hdX have to say. X := actual letter hdparm -t /dev/hdX have to say. X := actual letter have to say?
b) DMA on? hdparm -d /dev/hdX have to say. X := actual letter
You can turn it on with:- hdparm -d1 /dev/hdX have to say. X := actual letter
for those willing and able 'man hdparm' is actually a pretty good manual page.
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