[Klug-general] Defragging Vista

[James Morris]

On 5 October 2010 11:46, nic dan <dungeons88 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 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?


Thanks everyone for suggestions.

The resizing of the windows partition went smoothly after all the fuss
over the preparations. Unfortunately I got a bit carried away with
moving Linux partitions around and using cp to move the / partition
forgetting all about permissions, and fixing the partition order
amongst other things has forced me into re-installing Linux. On the
plus side I cheered my partner up when I informed her I typed a
command into her laptop that shutdown my PC.
james








> Aitch
> =============================================
>
>> 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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