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worker201:

quote:Originally posted by TheQuirk:
I assume you're not trying to resize an NTFS partion, because then it's a totally different story.
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gawddammmit, I just knew this was going to be a hassle.  It is in fact an NTFS partition.  Thanks so much for the warning.  If you have a few spare minutes, please advise further.

On a side note: before, I was planning to make the switch to Mac or Linux for personal political reasons.  You know, promote open source, give my money to companies that really care about computing, that sort of thing.  Sure, I saw what Windows was doing with my network connection and my files, but I figured "Hey, no big deal, I still get my mail on time, right?"
But really, this is just too much.  Why can't I make a bootable floppy for my own computer?  Why does the mouse need to access the internet?  What the fuck are "Dell Support Updates"?  How come there is a new critical update every damn week that claims to solve the exact same problem as the last one?  Why can't I resize my partitions?  They're my fucking partitions!!!!!!!

sorry about that.  bad week.

Calum:
i understand

NTFS is a closed format of filesystem. microsoft made it that way and they like to keep it that way.
basically the solution is to back everything up, make your partitions using the linux installer disk (don't know what blue linux does about partitions, but i find a mandrake install CD number one is the perfect GUI partitioner, you just go through the install till you've written the partitions and then reboot), and then install windows on a fat32 partition at the start of the drive. install it before you install linux by the way. windows will arse up your master boot record if you install linux first. and remember to make a linux bootdisk too, for when you need to reinstall windows in the future and it arses up your master boot record.

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