On Tuesday 20 June 2006 14:46, wwp wrote: > Hello Laurence, > > On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 12:20:09 +0100 Laurence Orchard <laurence@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi All > > > > I would like to install FC5 onto my Athlon64 m/c, I came with Windows XP > > Home installed using the whole 250Mb disk as one partition. > > > > Is there some easy! way to install FC5 without going through the remove, > > re-partition, re-install XP, Install FC5 route? > > > > On previous machines I have used Partition Magic to resize partitions, > > is there something that will do the same for NTFS? > > It was the same here, I used Partition Magic to stretch down the NTFS > chunk, then installed FC5 from DVD, w/ grub in master boot record (no > problem w/ dual boot). > > > Regards, Do you need to defrag the disc before resizing the NTFS partition? Nigel.
