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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user]  Re: dual boot install advice
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On Friday 8 December 2006 01:13, James wrote:

> That or many other methods never seem to work for me. XP is spread
> out all over the disk and the recovery partition is very difficult to
> deal with too.

Ah ok, that was not clear to me, and also I did not know that you had a 
recovery partition. In this case, as the others said, you need to defrag 
before doing anything (although maybe partition magic *might* be able to 
sort things out by itself, but I'm not sure, and it's commercial 
software).
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