Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4498 mails)

[rudolf <rwschnetler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 19:05 -0600, M Harris wrote:
> On Thursday 16 November 2006 18:47, John Pierce wrote:
> > I just got a dell inspiron 9400 core 2 duo and it has windows xp
> > installed.  If I shrink the partition and install opensuse will this
> > affect the windows xp installation, such as not make it bootable.
> 	Yes...
> 
> 	The reason is that Suse's partition shrinking software does not correctly 
> support NTFS partitions, and XP is usually preinstalled on an NTFS partition. 
> 
> 	The think you want to do is use another package (Partition Magic) to shrink 
> the NTFS partition *first* and then install Suse.

I have installed SUSE on machines that had WindowsXP with disks
formatted as NTFS without any problems. The partition shrinking worked
and the machines booted in WindowsXP or SUSE as advertised. Your mileage
my vary. As ever, if you have valuable data, make backup first.

Rudolf 

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