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James<br>The only time I had destroyed data with gparted was, I later discovered due to a corrupt fat table<br>Using TRKs testdisk, I was able to rebuild the drive and find/recover the data<br><br>http://trinityhome.org/Home/index.php?wpid=1&front_id=12<br><br>.....might be worth checking yours, if your having problems?<br><br>Aitch<br>=============================================<br><br>> Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 08:37:53 +0100<br>> From: jwm.art.net@gmail.com<br>> To: buckland.karl@googlemail.com; kent@mailman.lug.org.uk<br>> Subject: Re: [Klug-general] Defragging Vista<br>> <br>> On 5 October 2010 08:07, Karl Buckland <buckland.karl@googlemail.com> wrote:<br>> > James,<br>> ><br>> > I'm slightly confused as to why you're so upset by how NTFS stores<br>> > files, or why you're so desperate to get the files at 'the beginning'<br>> <br>> I have roughly 19gb remaining within the windows partition, but I<br>> can't shrink it any smaller than 70gb because of a handful of small<br>> files at the end of the partition! All that wasted space is upsetting<br>> when it could be used for good things! ie linux :-)<br>> <br>> <br>> > I'm also a little confused by the options for backup you have in mind.<br>> > Are you planning to re-install windows and then restore your personal<br>> > files, or are you thinking of restoring all the files from the windows<br>> > partition (system files and all)?<br>> <br>> <br>> The latter, system files and data. I can't be sure where anything is<br>> situated in the partition, so I need to backup everything.<br>> <br>> Of course, I wouldn't need to do this if I could just shrink the<br>> partition as much as needed.<br>> <br>> > I would just, as Dan has advised, back up your important files, then<br>> > use a gparted live CD to resize the NTFS partition. I've done it<br>> > plenty of times with no issues whatsoever - it can take an hour or<br>> > more for a large partition, but it works very nicely. I've also used<br>> > it to copy a partition from one disk to another, and then resize it.<br>> <br>> I'm not asking how to shrink a partition, I know how to do it in Linux<br>> or Vista, but both have limitations - gparted destroys data, vista's<br>> storage management tools refuses to destroy data!<br>> <br>> I need to find how to backup an entire windows partition, system files<br>> and user data. But unfortunately there is not enough room on the<br>> laptop to make an 19gb backup so I need to make it on a separate<br>> machine - which has more than enough drive space but it's all ext3<br>> partitions.<br>> <br>> I want to be sure that in the worst case scenario where the windows<br>> partition is completely destroyed that the backup system will restore<br>> it to working order (ie windows file attributes or restored correctly)<br>> otherwise I would have just done a straight copy or tar -jcvf etc.<br>> <br>> <br>> Thanks,<br>> James.<br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Kent mailing list<br>> Kent@mailman.lug.org.uk<br>> https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/kent<br> </body>
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