Hello,
I have a laptop with windows Home-XP (Which I find the most irritating of all the Windows OS's that I've ever used), the laptop has a 18 Gig disk drive.
I want to repartition the drive, to keep the XP in a half the drive and install Linux on the other half. I'm not a Linux expert but want to use the laptop to get further Linux experience.
In the past I have purchased various partition software manager's each time Microsoft changed something but having done that 3 times now I wonder if there is any alternative (My latest version was partition magic 4.0 which won't handle the new format NTFS that XP has been loaded with).
Can anyone suggest any free software or any techniques for safely repartitioning the Laptop without reformating the existing XP partition?
Thanks
Karl Middleton
On Monday 12 Aug 2002 8:58 am, kmweb wrote:
Hello,
I have a laptop with windows Home-XP (Which I find the most irritating of all the Windows OS's that I've ever used), the laptop has a 18 Gig disk drive.
I want to repartition the drive, to keep the XP in a half the drive and install Linux on the other half. I'm not a Linux expert but want to use the laptop to get further Linux experience.
In the past I have purchased various partition software manager's each time Microsoft changed something but having done that 3 times now I wonder if there is any alternative (My latest version was partition magic 4.0 which won't handle the new format NTFS that XP has been loaded with).
Can anyone suggest any free software or any techniques for safely repartitioning the Laptop without reformating the existing XP partition?
Ranish Partition Manager runs under DOS is free (as in beer well almost) and works with ntfs partitions.
Not as easy as Partition Magic but has the same functionality.
Install lilo in the master boot record of the ntfs boot disk and choose which os from the lilo prompt.
If you need any more help just ask on the list.
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John Woodard -
kmweb