I just used the standard resize option in the Mandrake install on my Win2k
partition, and it worked just fine.  I didn't defrag anything first either.


Jay

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Gahlon [mailto:cgahlon at citilink.com]
> Sent: Friday, December 29, 2000 2:30 PM
> To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org
> Subject: [TCLUG] Windoze 2K woes...
> 
> 
> I've been lurking the list for a while now, and I've seen a 
> lot of help
> here I can't find anywhere else on the net.
> 
> I have a laptop with W2K Pro on it and I'd like to resize the 
> partition
> to install linux on it.  I've defraged the drive but windows 
> appears to
> leave some small amount of information at the end of the disk.  I've
> made a ghost image, so I'm not worried about loosing 
> anything.  Is there
> a disk editor out there (maybe one that works like Norton's diskedit)
> that will work on a FAT-32 partition.  I just want to delete 
> the info at
> the end of the disk so I can resize it.  I'd rather not buy
> commercialre-paritioning software, as I'd only use it once.  Any
> suggestions?
> 
> Chris Gahlon
> 
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