For what it's worth I had a similar problem on a Dell Inspiron a few months ago. I can't remember the exact sequence but it was something like: Maybe it is something Dell specific, i.e. putting a restore partition after the XP one. * Tried to install SuSE (8.2 I think) as dual boot but it couldn't re-partition the hard disk (unmoveable files or something like that). * Didn't really wan XP at that time so I just wiped it an d installed SuSE - no problem at all. * Then work meant that I needed XP for remote access. Re-installed XP from the 'rescue' disks and then quite happily installed SuSE dual- boot. Everything's been fine since then.
I didn't investigate much but the impression I got was that the default XP installation put something at the top-end of the disk, maybe associated with the suspend/recover functions, and normal partition re-sizing couldn't handle it, but the re-installed XP put this somewhere else and everything was OK then. I guess it is academic now, as I believe Paul used Partition Magic to resize, but it does beg the question, Paul, did it have more than one
Colin.Fraser wrote: partition on the disk? I have seen a small restore partition in addition to an XP partition on some laptops (hidden from XP). I think Colin may have this one pegged. -- Joe Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris@ntm.org Registered Linux user 231871