On Dec 14, 2008, at 2:12 PM, Jared ''Danger'' Earle wrote:

> On 14 Dec 2008, at 22:03, Kevin Callahan wrote:
>> I launched Bootcamp .. and after 3 attempts of partitioning and
>> RESTORING, arrived at a 49 GIG "partition" for Vista with the
>> remaining Gigs for Mac OS X Leopard.
>
>
> Boot Camp turns your single-partition disk into a two partition disk.

Yes, I know ..

>
> To do this, it has to shuffle files on the disk to get them to fit
> into the reduced size. Imagine you're defragmenting a disk and the
> files are all over the place. You need to copy them into a contiguous
> block.

I had 449 GIG free .. I imagine there was a 49 Gig chunk free on the  
drive ..
but maybe not

>
>
> I'm not surprised your files are registering as new files as opposed
> to being the same files as they have been recreated as opposed to
> merely copied.

yeah ..
but I don't want to take up another 96Gig on my backup drive ..

shit

K

>
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