new install on a Compaq Evo N1015v

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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