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Al Heath wrote:
> 
> I tried restoring XP several times and various other shrinking attempts 
> but ended up using OS/2's LVM to complete wipe the disk and repartition 
> as I wanted as XP also wouldn't shrink down as far as I wanted due to 
> some "non relocateable files" (and also it wouldn't boot away after 
> shrinking to various attempted sizes ... 

>> 
> FWIW, your mileage may vary...
> Al H
> 

The non-relocatable files were possibly the hibernation files. Jan (the 
author of DFSee) warned me about these a while ago when I had a similar 
problem.

What you have to do is disable hibernation, run a disk defrag under 
windoze and then resize the partition.

Cheers/2

Ed.