I noticed something similar... I don't recall precisely how I dealt with it... check for options... perhaps it was Partition Magic which moved the upper files down to allow you to resize the partition in question
David ----- Original Message ----- From: Constantin Vernicos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Brian J. Stults <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: debian <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2000 11:09 AM Subject: Re: fips won't move hidden > 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] > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >