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Tell me, do you or others spot errors in this thinking that may prevent a fresh install on different partitions. Particularly, I don't recall if XP has "defrag" because XP can be installed on NTFS, which MS does not defrag so maybe defrag is not in your XP, so maybe you will need a third party defrag program. Windows XP certainly does have a defrag program for NTFS and NTFS does need to be defraged. Linux file systems generally do not need to be defraged. Linux also has a program you can use to resize Linux, DOS FAT, and XP NTFS
On Monday 05 December 2005 2:15 pm, Lonn wrote:
partitions. GNU Parted has this capability and there is a graphical front
end, called QTParted (but it is not on the SuSE distro).
I generally boot Knoppix and run QTParted at Linux installfests and when I
must resize partitions. It is similar to Partition Magic in its graphical
presentation, but not quite as automatic.
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Jerry Feldman