Hi FlorianK

I suspected as much. I read your posts that came up in my searches.

I wouldn't rush to that conclusion re. nitrousracer ... it sounds as if he was reacting to the extra hope he was given, rather than his own test/trial of the Ranish tool. I must admit though, that the ranish website is looking good, better than it was 2 years ago when I lookedt this last (however that time though, I didnt resize, I just formatted the whole HD).

I've already done a XPPro NTFS resize, and after two defragments, I was successful. In that case, I was never getting actual XP SYS files pressing the ends of the HD like here in XPHome. So, it's not really about fragmentation, merely about SYS files being in the wrong place, all the time. I'm studying some WIN XP HD optimisation stuff now, to see if I can find out how to move them back.