Re: resize, windows, slooow

[Paul MacManus]

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Paul MacManus" <address@hidden>
Reply-To: address@hidden
Date:  Sun, 25 Apr 2004 22:56:32 -0400

>---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
>From: Andrew Clausen <address@hidden>
>Date:  Mon, 26 Apr 2004 12:09:49 +1000
>
>>Hi Paul
>>
>>On Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 10:03:36PM -0400, Paul MacManus wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> I have used parted successfully several times in the past and have
>>> been very pleased with it, however today I ran into a frustrating
>>> problem and I need some help.
>>> 
>>> I run a dual boot (Windows Me and Redhat 8.0) Dell laptop. I needed to
>>> redo my partitions and as part of that process I resized the Windows
>>> Me partition. After resizing I could boot successfully in Linux but
>>> when I booted into Windows it was VERY slow. It did boot: the desktop
>>> and all the icons would come up but it could never load all the
>>> services, it would hang and I would eventually have to kill various
>>> processes. Even after that it did not work properly, when I would call
>>> a program it could take several minutes to launch or it would not be
>>> able to find it. Windows Me has essentially become unusable. I manged
>>> to boot more or less successfully in Windows Safe Mode and I ran
>>> Scandisk and Defrag  but these did not help. Is there anything I can
>>> do here?
>>
>>Odd.
>>
>>Could you give the output of chkdsk?
>>How big is the partition?  What is the cluster size?  How many
>>clusters?  Did you shrink or grow the file system?  (By how much?)
>>
>>Cheers,
>>Andrew
>>
>>
>
>Hi Andrew,
>
>      The partition is about 4GB. CLuster size is  16K, number of clusters is 
> ~260K, I grew the partition by about 100MB, there was that much unused space 
> between two partitions so I filled it in (smart!!).
>
>CHKDSK output
>
>4,266,786,816 bytes total disk space
>1,405,583,360 bytes available on disk
>
>       16,384 bytes in each allocation unit
>      260,424 total allocation units on disk
>       85,790 available allocation units on disk
>
>      651,264 total bytes memory
>      598,000 bytes free
>
>fdisk output (under Linux)
>
>Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 2432 cylinders
>Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
>  Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
>/dev/hda1             7       525   4168867+   c  Win95FAT32 (LBA) 
>/dev/hda2   *         1         6     48163+  83  Linux
>/dev/hda3           526      1929  11277630    5  Extended
>/dev/hda4          1930      2432   4040347+   c  Win95 FAT32(LBA) /dev/hda5   
>        526       651   1012063+  82  Linux swap
>/dev/hda6           652      1929  10265503+  83  Linux
>
>Partition table entries are not in disk order
>
>                      Thanks, Paul
>

I forgot to say: Windows loads from /dev/hda1 not /dev/hda4