[ILUG] Laptop install problem.

[Gary Coady]

On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 01:57:16PM -0000, Eamonn Shinners wrote:
> 1.  Win 2000 won't give up space for repartitioning with fips. It keeps
> telling me the last cylinder is not free, even after defrag.

Try using
attrib -s -r
on system, readonly files.
This might include
BOOT.INI
BOOTSECT.DOS
NTBOOTDD.SYS
NTDETECT.COM
NTLDR
PAGEFILE.SYS

Try defragging then...
Use attrib +s +r
after you've finished...

> ps: I know answer to Q1 is get rid of W2K, but we use it at work ( really ),
> and failing that, I'll have to install NT4.0

I hope to try win4lin over Christmas - it'll run at least W98SE,
supposedly quite well - maybe it'll let me move to Linux as my main work
machine :-)

Gary.

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