[wplug] Drive Partitions

Brian A. Seklecki lavalamp at spiritual-machines.org
Tue Oct 15 21:09:08 EDT 2002


On Tue, 15 Oct 2002 @ 8:54pm (-0500), Gonffen wrote:

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G> I have a windoze xp system that I would like to make dual-bootable with
G> Linux and I was wondering if theres a way to change the drive partitions
G> without reformating the drive so I can put both windoze and linux on the

There are a handful of utils for resizing ntfs and fat32 partitions.  XP
probably has one built in at this point.

Make sure you backup your MBR and anything you care about...things can go
wrong.

-lava

G> same hard drive.  Does anyone have any idea on how to do this?
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