[PLUG] Re: Does FIPS work with Windows XP Pro?

[Wil Cooley]

On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 11:29, Ed Sawicki wrote:

> fips is seldom useful when the partition you're trying to
> shrink is a Windows partition of any type, including FAT.
> Windows sets many of its disk blocks as "unmovable" and
> fips cannot move these unmovable blocks. The disk defragger
> program supplied with Windows also cannot move these blocks.

Indeed, but the latter unmovable blocks are usually paging space, so you
can set the maximum paging space to 0 to move them.  At least, I recall
having done that at some point in the past.

Wil
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