Re: Partitioning a working NTFS drive

2002-02-15 Thread Patrick Kirk
> >As an alternative to buying Partition Magic, try Bootit NG. You can make >the floppy disk, boot from it, cancel it's Setup, and then use the >partitioning tools. It can resize NTFS. > >http://www.bootitng.com > >Tom > superb - it works perfectly. thanks for the tip - my search of Google for a

Re: Partitioning a working NTFS drive

2002-02-15 Thread Johann Spies
On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 11:56:47PM +0200, Game Wizard wrote: > use partition magic to resize primary partition without loosing any data and > then install linux on available space. I have used parted last year on a 20Gig hard disk. At that stage partition magic did not work well on disk > 10G. I

Re: Partitioning a working NTFS drive

2002-02-14 Thread Jim Roy
> > Patrick Kirk wrote: > > > > I want to install on a laptop that has one 7 Gig ntfs partition. I do not > > want to reinstall win2k or its apps. > > As an alternative to buying Partition Magic, try Bootit NG. You can make > the floppy disk, boot from it, cancel it's Setup, and then use the >

Re: Partitioning a working NTFS drive

2002-02-14 Thread Kurt Lieber
On Thursday 14 February 2002 08:09 pm, D. wrote: > I was in the same position except I had WINME on the > drive. Do a search on www.google.com and search for > FIPS . That is a non-distructive partitioner. Unless FIPS has changed very recently, it doesn't support NTFS. Neither does GNU Parted,

Re: Partitioning a working NTFS drive

2002-02-14 Thread D.
I was in the same position except I had WINME on the drive. Do a search on www.google.com and search for FIPS . That is a non-distructive partitioner. If memory serves me correctly there is a lot of good information on the web page that you download FIPD from. After you do the partition you can do

Re: Partitioning a working NTFS drive

2002-02-14 Thread Tom Pfeifer
Patrick Kirk wrote: > > Hi all, > > I want to install on a laptop that has one 7 Gig ntfs partition. I do not > want to reinstall win2k or its apps. > > Can this be done? > > -- > Best regards, > > Patrick Kirk As an alternative to buying Partition Magic, try Bootit NG. You can make the flop

Re: Partitioning a working NTFS drive

2002-02-14 Thread nate
> > Hi all, > > I want to install on a laptop that has one 7 Gig ntfs partition. I > do not want to reinstall win2k or its apps. > > Can this be done? go buy the latest version of partition magic and resize the drive and re partition . nate

Re: Partitioning a working NTFS drive

2002-02-14 Thread Jason Majors
> I want to install on a laptop that has one 7 Gig ntfs partition. I do not > want to reinstall win2k or its apps. > > Can this be done? I've heard that if you defrag the partition immediately before resizing it, you won't lose any data. If you're of a commercial bent, you could get a copy of par

Re: Partitioning a working NTFS drive

2002-02-14 Thread Game Wizard
use partition magic to resize primary partition without loosing any data and then install linux on available space. - Original Message - From: "Patrick Kirk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian User" Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 7:23 AM Subject: Partitioning a w

Partitioning a working NTFS drive

2002-02-14 Thread Patrick Kirk
Hi all, I want to install on a laptop that has one 7 Gig ntfs partition. I do not want to reinstall win2k or its apps. Can this be done? -- Best regards, Patrick Kirk Telephone: 0870 011 8494 GSM: 07876 560 646 Web site: www.kirks.net