When, if at all, is safe to delete the *.log files on a win 2k PC

are there any of said files that should be NOT deleted?

I have this strange situation where I'm trying to install -as dual boot- linux (mandrake 10) on a cheap office pc with a 6GB HDD and a single NTFS partition.

The HDD was very heavily fragmented and was full to the limit (if I remember correctly there where ONLY 35K left free).

Now after some -heavy- spring cleaning I managed to achieve 1.9 GB of free space. BUT still Linux wouldn't install complaining of a heavily fragmented drive.

I relied heavily on Disk-Keeper (executive software) and on the list of fragmented files tells me there are only five of them left - (from a few thousand in thousands of pieces) all *.log files and all in the WINNT path. They can not be defragmented effectivly because of the constant access by the system. AND they sit in a very annoying way across the free contigius space in a way that I do assume makes the Mandrake installation think that the drive is too fragmented.

Now as far as I know, *.log files are quite safe to delete because the program would re-create them should they got missing. BUT not so sure about this occasion as I'm always extremelly wary of anything in the winnt\system32 path

Can I safely delete them or should I lokk for an alternative way around-it? (Buy a new HD would be out of the question - company PC)

Anybody has any suggestion on this?