alan c wrote: > James Milligan wrote: > >> Also, can someone advise me on a Windows program that can partition >> my drive more effectively than the built-in one with Windows? I've >> got a ~300 GB HDD, 293 is registering (that's pretty much normal), >> I've got ~65 GB free, but can only create a new partition of 2GB >> (shrinking the main partition by 2GB, therefore expanding unused >> space). > > I would be very suspicious about this. It may be that somehow there > are non movable items near the end of the drive, I do not know much > about that stuff. I did find one (only) drive which could not be > shrunk for some weird reason. Wubi would be ok for this case anyway, > but it is not very robust with power failures (or I guess forced > power downs).
Not sure what's going on with this drive, but isn't it generally a good idea to defrag a WinXP drive before trying to install a dual boot? Might be a good idea to do that, James. Mac -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
