Re: fips won't move hidden
I noticed something similar... I don't recall precisely how I dealt with
it... check for options... perhaps it was Partition Magic which moved the
upper files down to allow you to resize the partition in question
David
----- Original Message -----
From: Constantin Vernicos <vernicos@ujf-grenoble.fr>
To: Brian J. Stults <bs7452@csc.albany.edu>
Cc: debian <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2000 11:09 AM
Subject: Re: fips won't move hidden
> On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Brian J. Stults wrote:
>
> > I'm having trouble repartitioning a drive with a single FAT32 partition
> > with FIPS. I defragged, did a clean boot, and ran it, but it gives an
> > error that there are hidden or read-only files at the end of the
> > partition. I tried disabling the swap file (which I probably should
> > have done anyway.) That didn't help. Then I did "dir c:\ /s /a:h" to
> > find all the hidden files and change them. That took forever and still
> > didn't work. I don't want to shell out the money for Partition Magic.
> > Does anyone have any suggestions?
> >
> > Thanks.
>
>
> I think you should think again about using Partition Magic. I had the
> same problem, and solved it by using PM, which did a wonderful job.
>
> Anyway, the probleme is with defrag, try and find another way to
> defrag.
>
> Sorry if that doesn't help.
>
> Constantin Vernicos.
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>
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