There are cases where you will have to do the following special tasks to make this true:
If the Windows swap file is not moved during defragmentation, you must remove it.
Then, after you defragment your disk again and resize it, you will need to restore the
swap file. To remove the swap file, open the Control Panel, open the System icon, and
then click the Performance tab and select Virtual Memory. To disable the swap file, click
Disable Virtual Memory.
If your DOS partition has hidden files that are on the space you are trying to free up, you
need to find them. In some cases, you won??™t be able to delete them. In other cases, such
as swap files created by a program, you can safely delete those files. This is a bit tricky
because some files should not be deleted, such as DOS system files. You can use the
attrib -s -h command from the root directory to deal with hidden files.
Once your disk is defragmented, you can use one of the commercial tools described earlier (Partition
Magic or Acronis Disk Director) to repartition your hard disk to make space for Linux. An open
source alternative to those tools is QTParted.
Boot KNOPPIX or any of several other bootable Linux distributions (particularly rescue CDs)
and run QTParted by selecting System Tools???QTParted from the desktop main menu.
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