Could somebody please advice me on a safe approach whereby , I can have Debian on a Windows partition , sans data loss . ie : I want both the OSes , for different reasons .
Can somebody who has done a similar thing , please outline what steps are to be taken to this end , such that it is 100% certain that no data loss will ever occur. I am planning to clear off the 'E:' of Windows (I am having an 8.44 GB HDD) Perhaps , I need to explain why I am not repartitioning . The reason I am not going for a repartitioning spree is :- 1. I tried fips , it does not help to divide the 'C:' into 2 , even after an exhaustive defragmentation. 2. I need all the data I have on all the drives.(1 Primary and the rest Logical) This is approximately what my disk looks like (data exists on all drives) :- 1. My 'C:' , or shall I technically say , in my case , this is the only primary partition shows 4 GB approx (I have a minimalist Linux running on my box. , and this is what cfdisk shows ). 2. 'D:' is 1.47 GB 3. I have a partition for Linux containing the contents of RedHat CD .This is hidden to Windows and shows 300 or so MB 4. The 'E:' , I was speaking about shows approx. 3GB . 5. The 'F:' has 125 MB , and it is before this that you have the Linux partition (that I have not done mkfs.ext2 on). Thanks for any help, ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Shyam
