Installing FC5 onto existing XP Disk

[nigel henry]

On Tuesday 20 June 2006 14:46, wwp wrote:
> Hello Laurence,
>
> On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 12:20:09 +0100 Laurence Orchard 
<laurence at orchards.org.uk> 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?

Nigel.