Wired to wireless?

Jerry Feldman gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org
Mon May 3 13:54:38 EDT 2010


On 05/03/2010 01:49 PM, Richard Chonak wrote:
> On 05/03/2010 10:29 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
>  > The steps I use to set up dual boot are:
>  > 1. Resize the Windows partition to the desired size using either the=

>  > Windows resizer or stand along gparted.
>
> As a preliminary step, defrag the Windows disk to maximize the size of =

> the free space at the end of the Windows partition.   A (free) trial=20
> copy of "DiskPerfect" does a better job of this than the built-in=20
> Windows defragger.
>
> After that, you can use the built-in Windows tool to resize (shrink) th=
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> Windows partition.
>
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I always forget the defrag step :-).  I would think by now that Windows
would have improved their file systems, such as NTFS, to do a better
job, but NTFS does not have any defragmentation strategy built-in.

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Jerry Feldman <gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org>
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