Re: fips won't move hidden
Hi Brian: Check your defragging program to see if there are any options. You need to move all files to the front of the hard drive. I've had Nortons utility which does this easily. Dean 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. -- Brian J. Stults Doctoral Candidate Department of Sociology University at Albany - SUNY Phone: (518) 442-4652 Fax: (518) 442-4936 Web: http://www.albany.edu/~bs7452 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: fips won't move hidden
It is the files marked with the System attribute that Win9X Defrag won't move by default - not the hidden ones. To override that, go to Start - Run and use this command: defrag c: /p That should leave all free space in a contiguous block at the end of the partition so you can use fips. Another option is to go and get Bootit Direct from the link below. It comes with a stand alone partitioning tool called pdisk.exe that will shrink FAT (16 or 32) partitions without having to be concerned about moving files - it will do that for you. No need to actually install Bootit Direct itself. Just unzip it and look for pdisk.exe - that's all you need. It's shareware ($15) but the fully functional program is free for a one month trial. http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/BOOTITD.HTM Tom 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. -- Brian J. Stults Doctoral Candidate Department of Sociology University at Albany - SUNY Phone: (518) 442-4652 Fax: (518) 442-4936 Web: http://www.albany.edu/~bs7452 --
Re: fips won't move hidden
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
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]
