[Klug-general] Defragging Vista

nic dan dungeons88 at hotmail.com
Tue Oct 5 10:46:34 UTC 2010


James
The only time I had destroyed data with  gparted was, I later discovered due to a corrupt fat table
Using TRKs testdisk, I was able to rebuild the drive and find/recover the data

http://trinityhome.org/Home/index.php?wpid=1&front_id=12

.....might be worth checking yours, if your having problems?

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