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Unforgiven1:
I changed my mind and now want a dual boot system because I just couldn't live without gaming. So I reinstalled winsuck. (restore to factory settings disk) Now I went to install Redhat and used the disk druid to remove a peice of the winders partition to put Linux on.. Lo and behold..I couldn't edit the partition size. So could someone please tell me how to repartition my hard drive, leaving windows on around 15 gigs of my hard drive and giving the rest to Linux. (or free space I can put linux on.)
Faust:
Easiest way is just to partition the drive into boot, fat32, root, swap with linux, then reinstall windows then reinstall linux. This is why partitioning is meant to be well thought out I guess - it's a bitch to change afterwards without messing stuff up.
Unforgiven1:
problem is...I can't do that. I don't actually have the windoze disk. All I have is the recovery disks that restore this wonderous hunk of shit to factory installation. My HP laptop is my favorite gaming machine (for travel)...so I want dual boot for it, because it also goes to school with me...and I like Linux's office program more already.
My 2 of my other computers are running redhat single boot except for my big desktop which is just XP. But the guy that built that installed XP and didn't provide me with the disks
Copperhead:
1) What version of Windows? (NT/XP, 9x)
2) What type of "filesystem"? (NTFS, FAT)
I believe that if you want to "free up" HD space, then you are going to have to find a copy of Partition Magic. Qtparted will also work (http://qtparted.sourceforge.net) if you are running Linux. Both of these programs are capable of resizing NTFS partitions.
What you need is a partitioning scheme. If you care to provide us with a diagram,and some general properties of your hard drive, and your current partitioning scheme, we could probably help you out more.
Unforgiven1:
1. OS winders XP Home
2. filesystem: 38000mb NTFS. 24mb in FAT
3. it's a 40 gig standard hard drive in an HP laptop.
4.The way it's currently partitioned is...it's all in the NTFS partition. What I want to do is remove around 20 Gigabytes from there and make free space so that I can install redhat Linux onto it.
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