Last question first. Start, all programs, accessories Right click on the
command prompt and use run as administrator.
Having the data on a separate partition only makes sense, to me, when you
have a backup program that you have to back up the entire partition or
nothing, otherwise you set up a backup utility to backup the data folders
you use directly from the OS drive.
As to the question about the unmovable file, you can delete the hiberfil
file, but if you use hibernation you will have to manually recreate it
later, and if you have room on another partition for a pagefile, you can
remove it from your OS partition and add one on the other partition then
delete the one on the OS partition. That seems to be the locked file most
commonly in the location you are being stopped. Good luck.
"cryocynique" <cryocynique@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Quote:
> When does it make since to partition a hard drive then? Only whe you have
> a
> Recovery partition or have two operating systems? I hear what you are
> saying, but academically, if there is an answer to my original question, I
> would still like to know the answer. I tried use defrag.exe to see if
> some
> kind of a disk map would be displayed, but it told me I needed to use an
> administrator command prompt. Any one know how to get that?
>
> Thanks!
> --
> cryocynique
>
>
> "Carey Frisch [MVP]" wrote:
> Quote:
>> Purchase an external hard drive and perform periodic backups to it.
>> It does not make any sense to have data on a separate partition
>> that is on the same hard drive. If you hard drive should fail, you'll
>> lose everything!
>>
>> --
>> Carey Frisch
>> Microsoft MVP
>> Windows Desktop Experience -
>> Windows System & Performance
>>
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> "cryocynique" wrote:
>>
>> I have Vista Home Premium preloaded on a Dell Inspiron 1520 with a 320gb
>> hard
>> drive. I would like to isolate the OS from my data by shrinking the OS
>> partition to 42GB and creating another partition for my data. However,
>> Vista's partitioning utility says the minimum I can shrink the existing
>> partition to is around 176gb. I suspect that even though I have
>> defragged
>> the hard drive, there is some part of the OS that is sitting on the drive
>> out
>> far enough to cause this. I can't verify this because Vista's defrag
>> utility
>> doesn't show you a map of the drive during defrag. Anyone know of a way
>> around this?
>>
>> Thanks!
>> --
>> cryocynique