On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Brian J. Stults wrote: > I'm having trouble repartitioning a drive with a single FAT32 partition > with FIPS. I defragged, did a clean boot, and ran it, but it gives an > error that there are hidden or read-only files at the end of the > partition. I tried disabling the swap file (which I probably should > have done anyway.) That didn't help. Then I did "dir c:\ /s /a:h" to > find all the hidden files and change them. That took forever and still > didn't work. I don't want to shell out the money for Partition Magic. > Does anyone have any suggestions? > > Thanks.
I think you should think again about using Partition Magic. I had the same problem, and solved it by using PM, which did a wonderful job. Anyway, the probleme is with defrag, try and find another way to defrag. Sorry if that doesn't help. Constantin Vernicos. Institut Fourier. tél: 04 76 51 46 56 poste: 35 25 mél: [EMAIL PROTECTED]