On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 10:46:27PM +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: > Many thanks to Charles Curley for the links. You are most welcome; that's what it's there for. > The link to.http://gparted.sourceforge.net/ solved the problem. I > downloaded the gparted live cd, version-0.2.5.5.iso. Thanks for the referral to the live CD; I wasn't aware of it. I've added a link to it with a credit to you. > > XP for the the first time that I know runs CHKDSK (probably annoyed > that it's file sysem has been messed with), then having accepted > that it's ok, reboots, in the usual Windows style. parted forces the check, so that's normal. > > Well, all I can say is that Gparted has done the job. XP is now showing that > it's using 11.72GB of the 40GB drive, and all the rest is free space, and > certainly enough for a couple of Linux distro's. Glad to hear it. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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