26 Aug
2006
26 Aug
'06
19:54
On Saturday 26 August 2006 07:40, Robert Lewis wrote:
I can tell you that shrinking an XP partition on my new laptop with Earlier traffic on this group about all of this discussion with various approaches to resolution. Usually, I like to just have a second drive for Linux when I dual boot which is necessary if limited harddrive space is happening or shrinking doesn't work.
In the end, I used partition magic to shrink the XP partition and then Linux installed ok.
Sage advice regarding two drives. I've done it both ways, letting the installer do the shrinking and installing a second drive. Both worked Flawlessly. The partition shrinking was almost magic. Clue: defrag first. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen