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Re: pre-installation question

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (robob)
Thu Nov 7 11:10:33 1996

Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 11:21:54 -0500 (EST)
From: robob <robob@robob.com>
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In-Reply-To: <199611070047.SAA10946@morse.math.nwu.edu>
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On Wed, 6 Nov 1996, Charles Rezk wrote:

> 
> drive as a Windows 95 partition.  I need to use FIPS to make the
> second partition.  Unfortunately, my Windows swap-file is highly
> fragmented and spread out all over the drive.  How do I get rid-of or
> defragment the Windows swap-file so that I can run FIPS, and then
> restore the swap-file later?



1.  Run Win95 Defrag in full mode
2.  BACKUP what you cannot afford to loose
3.  unattrib \system.1st (hidden file in root that is marked unmoveable)
4.  FIPS
5.  Win95 will recreate a swapfile if you have to delete it.  

Good Luck:)

Robert A. Ober
Robob@robobo.com	www.robob.com, ftp.robob.com, robob1.robob.com,etc




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