[Gllug] [Not really OT, honestly] Forcing Vista to defrag properly

[Simon Perry]

John Winters wrote:
> At first glance this would seem to be an OT question, but it's very 
> relevant to Linux.
> In order to shrink the Vista partition I need to get it to defrag 
> thoroughly, but the Vista defragger seems to be even worse than the XP 
> one.  It's bigger drawback is it won't tell you what the current state 
> of the disk is - or at least, only very superficially.  With XP you 
> could see the layout of free space and at least make a guess at what 
> needed to be moved or removed.  Vista has gone all quiet and won't pass 
> on this information.
> 
> Anyone know of a good way to force Vista to do a complete defrag?  I'm 
> on the point of firing up fdisk and blowing it away.
> 
I have a friend in a similar position and I forwarded him the following 
two links although I haven't had any feedback yet.

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/working-around-windows-vistas-shrink-volume-inadequacy-problems/
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/using-gparted-to-resize-your-windows-vista-partition/ 


Hth

Simon

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