Repartitioning HD

Antonio Olivares olivares14031 at yahoo.com
Wed Oct 4 22:43:45 UTC 2006



--- Louis Garcia <louisg00 at bellsouth.net> wrote:

> Just got a new laptop with winxp installed. Can
> fedora installer
> repartition the hard drive to shrink the ntfs drive
> so I can install
> fedora?

No, anaconda cannot resize ntfs partitions.  Use what
you have at hand, ie., partition magic,
gparted-livecd, systemrescuecd, knoppix, etc. to
partition the drive.  Running scandisk and
defragmenting the drive is recommended so the
partition works better.

> 
> I can install partition magic and do it that way but
> just wanted to ask.
> I do want to keep the windows install.
> 
> -Louis 
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Regards,

Antonio 

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