I used gparted from the Fedora 7 Live cd to create several partitions on my hd; sda1 for XP, the others for various Fedoras.(I used the Live cd for this so that I could also use badblocks on the linux partitions and label them.) After installing XP in its partition and then booting the Live cd again, fdisk showed one less partition (the original sda2, a small boot partition, was gone), parted complained about overlapping partitions, and gparted didn't show any. I guess I could delete the linux partitions with fdisk, hoping that gparted will recognize sda1, and then start creating the linux partitions again. Or start all over again, install XP first and then shrink its partition and add new ones with gparted. No big deal. What worries me though is that XP can ever touch the other partitions, say, during some updates; if this is so (and not a consequence of my ignorantly doing something I shouldn't have), then it will have to live in a KVM image and be forgotten. So my question really is: is there something to keep in mind when partitioning a drive for XP/Fedora dual boot? Andras
