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 > > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at lists.real-time.com > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >