I don't know if W2k's disk defrager is the same as Win98 but I just had a similar problem setting up a win98/linux dual boot laptop. I turned off the "rearrange program files so my programs start faster" option in the defrag settings and it then worked correctly leaving no data at the end of the disk. Dan Gorentz Christopher Gahlon wrote: > 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