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#1 2010-01-10 13:40:48

mantiz
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[solved] Defragmentation necessary in Arch-XP dual boot?

I set up a dual boot with Arch linux and windows xp on my system.. Took a day tweaking and customizing both OS-es to my convenience.
and now only I realised that I had to defragment the hard drive after installing windows and before setting up arch.. sad
Now I'm wondering whether to go through the whole process again...

So, is it really an important step? Any problem if I just skipped it?  help pls..  neutral

Last edited by mantiz (2010-01-11 20:46:07)

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#2 2010-01-10 13:46:07

joaca_rj
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Re: [solved] Defragmentation necessary in Arch-XP dual boot?

I believe this is important if you are resizing ( is that spelled OK? ) the windows partition to get space to a new one... if you created them both before installing windows, I don't think you'll need to worry about it...

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#3 2010-01-10 13:54:16

mantiz
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Re: [solved] Defragmentation necessary in Arch-XP dual boot?

thanks for the reply smile
well.. i'm kinda new to this, so, i'll just tell you what i did:

first, I deleted all the partitions,
created a partition, and installed windows in it.
booted from the arch cd and installed arch, using partitions from the remaining space i made with cfdisk.

so i'm guessing the defragmentation step was not crucial in my case..?   smile

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#4 2010-01-10 13:58:54

lucke
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Re: [solved] Defragmentation necessary in Arch-XP dual boot?

You didn't have anything to defragment, really.

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#5 2010-01-10 15:18:49

mantiz
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Re: [solved] Defragmentation necessary in Arch-XP dual boot?

oww.. now I feel really stupid!  neutral

anyway, thanks guys for the replies..

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#6 2010-01-11 01:48:09

ngoonee
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Re: [solved] Defragmentation necessary in Arch-XP dual boot?

mantiz wrote:

oww.. now I feel really stupid!  neutral

anyway, thanks guys for the replies..

You're only stupid if you don't learn from your mistakes smile

Anyway, please mark this thread [solved] (edit your first post).

On the side: defrag basically rearranges where your data sits on a hard disc, FAT and NTFS start writing data (in general) from the start of the disc, so a brand new install has it all clustered at the start. Its installs that have been used for quite a while (month or so) that has data all over the place, this needs defragmenting to move it to the start so that you can use the space at the back contiguously for a new partition.


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#7 2010-01-11 20:45:44

mantiz
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Re: [solved] Defragmentation necessary in Arch-XP dual boot?

true.. I learnt more about computing by using arch for a month than I have learnt after years of using windoze smile

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