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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Sun, 16 Jul 2006, James Miller wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: sindi keesan
> > This assumes that everyone has a free partition.  I resized it to put on a
> > laptop computer that had Win98 on it so I would not need to shrink Win98.
> > We shrank Win98 on another computer and it stopped working (lost one
> > required file, I think).
>
> As an addendum to this discussion one should _always_ defrag a Windows 
> partition before resizing it. Could that (not defragging the partition first) 
> have been the source of your problem?

No, we defragged first.  But we also deleted a lot of programs (using the 
Add/Remove software bit in Control Panel) and it asked whether to remove a 
few files that were apparently not used by other programs, and now we are 
missing something needed by some antivirus program for FAT32 that we could 
not find a way to remove.  No big deal, I would rather use the 8GB SCSI 
drive for DOS/linux without Win98.  I will see if I can write to the loop 
BL3.40 on a scsi drive with ext2 BL3.40 and my scsi kernel (rather than 
redoing initrd.fs for 2.2.26).

Sindi

 > > James