Hello Nigel, On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 15:55:37 +0200 nigel henry <cave.dnb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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? Try. IIRC, P-Magic is smart enough to tell you how much you can stretch down w/o having to defrag. You could also defrag directly before asking, as it's not a bad idea if your disk is entropy :-). Regards, -- wwp
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