defragging

[enyaw]

Hi, I have a general question. Can I defrag a dual boot "xp/media centre edition machine without fucking up files on the other side? Let's say I'm in xp and I want to defrag the media centre partition without logging out and booting into media centre. Do I have to log out of xp first or can I do it from xp? They both share the same file system ntfs. Is there a proper way to do it? Or let's say I want to grab shit from the "other" side. Will it eventually degrade the OS? Or go right ahead?

 

[WoodPeckr]

Believe you can only defrag the partition you are using.
If you want to defrag both, you would have to do one first then log off that one and go into to other to defrag the other.

 

[enyaw]

Woody, media centre edtion is an old stand alone version of windows. Now they incorporate it into 7. It's really a version of xp pro. When I go to my computer in xp both partitions show up. And I've defragged it before but not often I was just wondering if it could be harmful in the long term or just log out and defrag from the media centre side. And what about taking files from one side or the other? Is it ok

 

[WoodPeckr]

All my dual boot systems are M$ and Linux. I regularly have no problems moving files from Linux into Windows side but you can't move files from Windows into Linux. Well you can if you install an app but I've no need for that. M$ treats the Linux partition as 'unknown' partition. Another plus for Linux is it requires NO defragging.

Never did a dual boot with two M$ OSs but imagine defragging will be needed on both partitions in time. Defragging the Windows partitions should cause no harm since it is necessary PM function.