I hope this is enough on topic. I just bought a Compaq notebook computer that has Vista. I would like to repartition it so that I can have a separate partition for data and so that I can later install SuSE. I attempted to repartition with Partition Magic 8 and found it could not properly identify the partition so it would not let me resize. I also could not get Ghost to backup the drive. The first question(s) I have is this: do any of the Linux world partition tools deal with a Vista partition? Has anyone tried a dual boot setup with Vista and SuSE? I was just looking at Parted and qtparted but they seem old and I don't know if they support Vista. The next question I have is about backup (disaster recovery). What tools work with Vista and ext3 for SuSE? In the past I used Ghost (mostly for the Windows side) but when I try to use it with Vista, it just hangs as soon as the image creation begins. I looked at the current Partition Magic and found that it seems Norton has sucked up a good program and killed it. They still sell it but it is the same old version from a few years ago and does not support Vista. I see there is Acronis Disk Director. Has anyone tried that with SuSE and/or Vista? Damon Register -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org