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On Sun August 24 2003 1:33 am, Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote:
My daughter wants to install SuSe 8.2 on her Compaq laptop during her one week stay with me. As her harddisk is for the moment fully occupied with Windows XP we have to do a repartitioning. As she does not have her Windows cd's with her I would like to know of a more or less safe repartitioning with the best chance that her "well functioning" Windows is probably not affected. From my Red Hat 5,2 days I remember a program FIPS. Does it work with Windows XP? Some ideas? I have for the moment only Ranesh partitioning program (part243.exe) which does not recognize the XP partition. Anything free which could work? Or do I have to look for a commercial product?
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"The NTFS FAQ explains this at http://linux-ntfs.sf.net" he says quoting Szakacsits Szabolcs. Szakas works on the newest NTFS driver and ntfsresize program. Please check this out. On SuSE 8.2 Pro, ntfsresize is loaded when you boot to the rescue disk so you can resize NTFS partitions. Szakas says it works and is reliable. He also states that this version of the NTFS driver supports reads and writes and is reliable while the NTFS driver that loads with a stock SuSE 8.2 Pro is the old, unreliable driver. As ALWAYS, do backups first of her WinXP data. Partition Magic would work also if you want to spend money. Stan