RE: [ILUG] falling at the first hurdle

From: Caolan McNamara (Caolan.McNamara at domain ul.ie)
Date: Wed 05 May 1999 - 16:49:47 IST


On 05-May-99 Diarmuid Collins wrote:
>
>As before I got out FIPS and started to partition the disk (after I defragged
>the disk and yes I did switch off the virtural memory) however FIPS only
>lets me create a tiny (2M) partition at the end of the disk. Looking at the
>defrag window it seems that there are some unmoveable sectors at the end of
>the disk which are causing me problems. Does anyone know how to move these
>or get around the problem somehow. Unfortunately I can't get my hands on
>Partition Magic so I don't know of any other way around this problem. Any
>ideas?

More than likely those files are something like windows temporary files which
remained behind after a crash or summat. I'd bet (some small amount of money
that i could lose easily) that you could delete the hell out of them without
any grief.

C.

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