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Re: resize, windows, slooow
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Paul MacManus |
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Re: resize, windows, slooow |
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Sun, 25 Apr 2004 23:04:15 -0400 |
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Paul MacManus" <address@hidden>
Reply-To: address@hidden
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2004 22:56:32 -0400
>---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
>From: Andrew Clausen <address@hidden>
>Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 12:09:49 +1000
>
>>Hi Paul
>>
>>On Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 10:03:36PM -0400, Paul MacManus wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I have used parted successfully several times in the past and have
>>> been very pleased with it, however today I ran into a frustrating
>>> problem and I need some help.
>>>
>>> I run a dual boot (Windows Me and Redhat 8.0) Dell laptop. I needed to
>>> redo my partitions and as part of that process I resized the Windows
>>> Me partition. After resizing I could boot successfully in Linux but
>>> when I booted into Windows it was VERY slow. It did boot: the desktop
>>> and all the icons would come up but it could never load all the
>>> services, it would hang and I would eventually have to kill various
>>> processes. Even after that it did not work properly, when I would call
>>> a program it could take several minutes to launch or it would not be
>>> able to find it. Windows Me has essentially become unusable. I manged
>>> to boot more or less successfully in Windows Safe Mode and I ran
>>> Scandisk and Defrag but these did not help. Is there anything I can
>>> do here?
>>
>>Odd.
>>
>>Could you give the output of chkdsk?
>>How big is the partition? What is the cluster size? How many
>>clusters? Did you shrink or grow the file system? (By how much?)
>>
>>Cheers,
>>Andrew
>>
>>
>
>Hi Andrew,
>
> The partition is about 4GB. CLuster size is 16K, number of clusters is
> ~260K, I grew the partition by about 100MB, there was that much unused space
> between two partitions so I filled it in (smart!!).
>
>CHKDSK output
>
>4,266,786,816 bytes total disk space
>1,405,583,360 bytes available on disk
>
> 16,384 bytes in each allocation unit
> 260,424 total allocation units on disk
> 85,790 available allocation units on disk
>
> 651,264 total bytes memory
> 598,000 bytes free
>
>fdisk output (under Linux)
>
>Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 2432 cylinders
>Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
>/dev/hda1 7 525 4168867+ c Win95FAT32 (LBA)
>/dev/hda2 * 1 6 48163+ 83 Linux
>/dev/hda3 526 1929 11277630 5 Extended
>/dev/hda4 1930 2432 4040347+ c Win95 FAT32(LBA) /dev/hda5
> 526 651 1012063+ 82 Linux swap
>/dev/hda6 652 1929 10265503+ 83 Linux
>
>Partition table entries are not in disk order
>
> Thanks, Paul
>
I forgot to say: Windows loads from /dev/hda1 not /dev/hda4
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