Chris Mohler wrote:
I recently purchased a Dell with preloaded XP. This is roughly what I needed to do: 1 - contact the manufacturer, and *insist* that since I purchased Windows XP, that I am entitled to an installation CD (I am). They eventually gave in. 2 - remove all partitions (including the Dell "restore partition"), install windows from the CD - partition/format a suitible place for XP to live, and leave the rest as free space. 3 - install fedora. This might seem like a lot of work, but the XP system that Dell pre-loaded was so full of bloatware that it was almost unuseable. Something would pop up every 15 seconds, and heavy-duty apps (blender, games, etc) crawled. The "fresh" XP was (subjectively) twice as fast as the preloaded system. Just my 2 cents... Chris
If you want to use Norton ghost, you could make an image of your XP installation. Then you could use the ghost image and adjust the XP partition downward. I did this for a work computer and FC6T2 installed fine on the freed up space. This allowed also for noth having the headache of de-fragmenting, resizing and the like for XP and the auxiliary partition. You also have a reliable backup in case the hard disk crashes. You do not need to reinstall all of the service packs for all the M$ OS and other software again either. This was on a Dell computer.
Since you are planning to use the second drive for Linux and the first drive as XP, it might not be needed.
Jim -- Moore's Constant: Everybody sets out to do something, and everybody does something, but no one does what he sets out to do.
