[Techtalk] Re: [Issues] windows

[Conor Daly]

On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 02:15:05PM +0100 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
James thought:
> On 13 May 2002, Rebecca J. Walter wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 14:43, Jim wrote:
> > > Does any linux person know how to install Suse Linux and retain Windows xp 
> > 
> > What type of partition did you use for XP?  If you used an NTFS format
> > for XP, SuSE can't resize it to make room for SuSE.  The safest thing to
> > do is to add an additional hard drive for Linux.  If you have multiple
> > partitions for XP, move the data off one of them and use that one for
> > Linux.  I don't know if there are any tools that work on the NT file
> > system available elsewhere you could use for resizing the NT partition. 
> 
> Yes: Partition Magic can do exactly this - just shrink your existing NTFS 
> partition enough to make space for Linux.
> 
> > I am not familiar with XP.  I just know what my SuSE manual tells me.
> 
> I doubt SuSE includes a tool capable of this - I think one other Linux 
> distro DOES bundle a limited version of Partition Magic, though...
> 
> The easiest approach (but this does cost money!) is to buy a copy of 
> Partition Magic - it's quite useful for this kind of job, but rather 
> expensive for one-off use... Alternatively:
> 
> 1. Backup the files, reformat, repartition, restore. (Painful!)
> 2. Partition Magic.
> 3. Add another HDD (nice if you can afford it, but even more $$$)
> 
> PM is written by PowerQuest; I think www.powerquest.com would do? 
> Alternatively, a copy of Symantec/Norton Ghost could make an image of the 
> HDD, and restore it into a smaller partition, I think - but again this 
> costs money...

Does anyone know if XP will require your to use up an activation if you
resize the partition(s)?  My boss got a machine recently with XP and a
_single_ 100Gb NTFS partition!  Imagine defragging that...

Conor
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