NTFS Installation Questions from the newbiest of newbies....

[rickenbacherus]

I think what he meant was that the factory-installation of Windows actually *uses* the entire hard drive, that is there is data, sometimes unmovable, scattered across the whole thing. I just ran a defrag on my hard drive, and after it finished there are still two big blue bands of "Contiguous Files" about right smack in the middle of my hard drive.

Thanks for clarifying. Just another reason you need a journaled file system like ext3 or reiser. Of course that means Linux.