Craig White wrote:
On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 14:10 -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote:
I've acquired a computer with a 40 gig hard drive with one NTFS partition and XP installed. Can I somehow repartition it to reduce the XP partition to a minimum using the F-10 live cd? Or should I forget that and install an additional drive for F-10?
40 Gb is not very large. I wouldn't suggest that you have XP with too much less than 20 Gb but the installer can indeed shrink the NTFS partition on the fly during installation and use the space made available for Linux.
I would suggest that you use the Windows tools to 'defragment' the XP installation first unless that is a fairly clean, unused XP installation.
Craig
Yes, I already ran the "defrag" on Xp and it found nothing to do as I expected since it is a new install on a used box. I have no use for Windows but I keep throwing Windows installations away and it seemed like I ought to keep one. It also came with an re-installation cd which I assume would permit me to rescue the windows install if I hose it, should I want to.
I was thinking more like 10 gigs for Windows. It doesn't occupy but a small part of the drive now and I don't plan on using it for anything ...
I didn't realize the Fedora installer could re-size the Windows partition but I will have a try at it.
Thanks.
Bob