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Re: [SLE] Resizing NTFS with 9.2
- From: michael norman <michaeltnorman@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 10:15:36 +0000
- Message-id: <200411091015.36718.michaeltnorman@xxxxxxxxx>
On Monday 08 November 2004 15:38, David Robertson wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-11-07 at 12:19 +0000, michael norman wrote:
> > I have a friend who has a new box with XP personal installed. He is keen
> > to try Linux. If I give him 9.2 will it be safe to use yast to resize
> > his existing NTFS XP. Has anybody done it yet ? Is it ok ?
> >
> > Mike
>
> It's good to hear that others have had no problems and I hate to throw a
> spanner in the works, but my two attempts at resizing ntfs partitions
> with 9.1 ended in disaster, with the data being trashed. I did defrag
> the drive first.
>
> So, make sure your friend backs up everything before doing it!
>
> David
Yes I will advise him to do that.
Mike
> On Sun, 2004-11-07 at 12:19 +0000, michael norman wrote:
> > I have a friend who has a new box with XP personal installed. He is keen
> > to try Linux. If I give him 9.2 will it be safe to use yast to resize
> > his existing NTFS XP. Has anybody done it yet ? Is it ok ?
> >
> > Mike
>
> It's good to hear that others have had no problems and I hate to throw a
> spanner in the works, but my two attempts at resizing ntfs partitions
> with 9.1 ended in disaster, with the data being trashed. I did defrag
> the drive first.
>
> So, make sure your friend backs up everything before doing it!
>
> David
Yes I will advise him to do that.
Mike
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