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Hello,
I want to partition my HD (30GB - 17 - not used) and assign about 10gb to a new partition in order to install LinuxOS.
I have WinXP Home P3 , ram 512mb, 30 gb hd, Laptop
If anyone could suggest me on what is the best way to do it and what is the software that I should use for it. I've heard about Partition Magic but is there any other prog that is free.
Anyway, any suggestion on this project is much appreciated.
Linux has a few toys like diskdruid that will do it for you if it is fat32.
But if it is ntfs i would go with partition magic 8/9 Im sure there are hashes around for it.
Just make sure you defrag your drive before you partition it.
<<<You'll probably lose XP if you use partition magic8 unless they've done an update recently. It does NTFS and linux partitions ok but it can't even see XP when it's installed in XP. It'll just overwrite it sometimes. PM7 was better for moving NTFS but it won't create proper linux partitons. >>>
So what should I do then. I was thinking about PM7. But...is it the only prog for winXP that can be used for partitioning so that thenafter another OS(Linux) might be installed.