XP Home System Files Occupy Extremes of Hard Disk

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Rafa Lesp

Hi,

I am defragmenting my Harddisk on which I have only XP Home, so that
afterwards I may partition it (only one partiton at the moment.

I have used various defraggers, and the latest one, Diskkeeper, tells
me that at the very end of the (only 20% occupied) hard disk, there
are some system files.

My NTFS reduction tools tell me these systems files are preventing me
from liberating space on the hard disk. Note that I am not using
Partition Magic. May be I should, but you see I have been through this
procedure before with XP Pro, and actually the problem was not so bad,
i.e. the XP Pro System files did not hang around at the very end of
the hard disk, but rather somewhere around the middle or so.

So, may I ask, is there a way to move these system files back so I can
liberate space on the hard disk, without deinstalling and
re-installign windows. I have thought about the dilemma, and I was
almost not going to post, as de-installation seems to be the most
obvious way to deal with this, but here I go anyway, on the off-chance
that someone else has solved this problem.
 
If you use Partition Magic, or any other well constructed partitioning tool,
it is completely unnecessary to 'liberate' space on your hard disk.

Tom Swift
 
<Personal Opinion>Disk space is cheap. Hours spent rebuilding your computer
becuase you were so retentively re-locating every block on your computer
that the partition became corrupt is expensive. Do the math and enjoy the
fine multimedia enhancements of a most excellent os! </Personal Opinion>
 
Thank you for your replies, I appreciate them. However, I'm not going
to take your advice. Not because it isn't valid (of course) but simply
because I feel this is going to pop up again. I can accept a certain
amount of greediness on the part of sys files, but this is too much.

No. What I'm going to do is slowly delete XP Home, until I identify
which are the wayward system files.
 
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