Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas wrote: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, tester wrote: > >Civileme! > >Isn't possible that using a third party program (like Norton System Works) >the windows swap file is located at the end of the disk? > >This happened to me once! I had to use the 'original' "defrag" [sorry >I forgot the real name!] from MS (I know that defrag was bought from >Norton!). > >Ricardo Castanho > > >>This one means that a windows program has placed a non-relocatable >>cluster near the end of the disk or that you are using the NTFS >>filesystem which we do not write-enable in the install kernel. >> >>SInce you are running 98 which does not support NTFS, do the disk defrag >>and scroll down on the full display--near the bottom you will find one >>or more red-marked clusters. >> >>The solution is non-trivial, Either remove programs one by one and >>defrag and try linux after each such removal or install linux on another >>large disk with a grub boot, copy all of your windows data over (but not >>your installed programs), then scrub windows and go back to fdisk and >>set up windows on a smaller primary partition, reinstalling software >>then set up linux again on the primary master drive and mount the second >>drive to restore the data you wanted to back up. I have done this in >>another situation--a rather full 10G disk where Win98 was installed and >>the user attempted an XP upgrade, losing mouse and keyboard (both >>Microsoft brand hardware products, BTW) in the process. I could not >>shrink the winpartition enough to make room for the 2.2G of data he >>wanted to rescue, so I used a second disk and a linux install on it, >>then scrubbed the first disk after copyiong over the info he wanted. >>The clean install of XP still could not see his mouse or keyboard, so >>he is running 98 and Mandrake dual boot these days, and he seems very >>grateful that linux was able to save his data from an otherwise trashed >>situation. >> >>Civileme >> >>>------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> >>>Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >>>Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com >>> >> >> >> >> > >- -- >delivery NOT reliable => [EMAIL PROTECTED] >========================================================== >Linux user # 102240 => Machine # 96125 => Seti@home user >========================================================== >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) >Comment: Para mais informa��es veja http://www.gnupg.org > >iEYEARECAAYFAjwqug4ACgkQqJymTCNNyXGByQCgrYWSrQna1gn0mAmnRabi/RMr >GV4An3DD04wz5YKxBd0tZlrb5G9KwHE1 >=Qykl >-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > Well, I am no expert on windows and I have never used Norton, but putting the swap file out there is possibly a way to mess things up. Certainly placing the swap file where there is _guaranteed_ to be a lot of stepping is very inefficient, but then most winprogrammers are more concerned with just getting something to work cause "no one really uses all that horsepower under the hood".
Civileme
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