OFF-TOPIC: Fedora 7 already installed, can't install XP on empty partition

[Aaron Konstam]

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> I realized I might not need gparted, fdisk might be able to do it. I
> could try to set /dev/sda[12] to type 17 (hidden HPFS/NTFS) -- I just
> tried it with the (empty) NTFS partition on /dev/sda3. Question:
> changing a partition's type shouldn't alter any of its data, should
> it?
> 
> Thks again,
> 
> Andre
> 
No the XP partition should be type 7.
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