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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.ultranet.com!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uuneo.neosoft.com!conrads From: conrads@localhost.neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Can't move clusters.... Date: 1 Aug 1996 17:59:16 GMT Organization: What? Me, organize? Lines: 38 Message-ID: <4tqr9k$eeg@uuneo.neosoft.com> References: <31F87503.BC0@bfs2.ug.cs.sunysb.edu> <31FFEE67.3A2D8BFA@lambert.org> Reply-To: conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier) NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.27.165.164 In article <31FFEE67.3A2D8BFA@lambert.org>, Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> wrote: >K-MaC wrote: >] >] I'm trying to partition my WD 420Meg HD, and it's >] got about 78 Megs free. But I can't use the FIPS >] program effectively. Apparently, there is some un- >] moveable clusters on my drive, right near the end >] of the partition (it only has the MSDOS partition). >] Is this from Win95? How can I get some free space? > >You say you have Win95. You need to: > >1) Boot Win95 >2) Go into the control panel and totally disable swapping >3) Reboot (Restart) Win95 (the swap areas will now be gone) >4) Run the Win95 defrag (last control panel on right button > "properties" menu on the drive window from double-clicking > "my computer") >5) NOW you can run FIPS >6) Boot Win95 >7) Turn swapping back on for Win95 so it's no worse for wear That's all very good, but I suspect what's really going on is that his drive is Drivespaced. Drivespace 3 uses a number of locked clusters at the end of the volume, making any attempt to repartition impossible. In short, decompress the drive! And not to worry; even though you say you only have 78 megs free, Drivespace will decompress OK, as it dynamically reallocates disk space in the process of decompressing. Just make sure that the actual amount of storage needed doesn't exceed the physical size of the disk. In that case, you'll have to free up some space by deleting files on your compressed volume first. Hope this helps. -- Conrad Sabatier -- http://www.neosoft.com/~conrads