Re: [LUG] Partitioning Windows XP

[Neil Stone <Neil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Paul Hewson wrote:
> I've got a Dell machine on Loan (hoorah)
> But it comes with XP home (boo)
> But the owner is quite happy for me to use Knoppix (hoorah)
> But it can't write anything on the NTFS HDD (boo)
> Whilst I daren't reformat the whole HDD as FAT32, I could shove a very big 
> FAT32 partition on (hoorah)
> But I can't figure out how to do that (boo)
>
> It appears to me as if there is something in XP home that should let you add a 
> new partition, but as testimony to my level of stupidity I can't get it 
> working (I assume its for when you add a new disk).
>
> Also, there's something on sourceforge / Debian package that seems to do NTFS 
> resizing, but it needs debian testing (ntfsutils????).   Don't fancy 
> knackering someone elses machine because I'm too stupid to use testing 
> properly.   Am I going to have to buy Partition Magic to resize the NTFS / 
> give me a FAT 32 partition / install my own debian (I reckon Knoppix could 
> sell that concept, but without being able to write >1.44 Mb I can't get much 
> work done)..
>
> Cheers for any advice.
>
> Paul

Can't you get an evaluation version of Partition Magic ?
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