Mailing List os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com Archived Message #1587

From: "Ed Durrant" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com> Full Headers
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Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless]Re: OT: Need guidance on 1.2 install
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 06:42:02 +1000
To: OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>

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.

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