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There was another thread like this a little while ago, about resizing an existing slice though, but I suggested Fips b/c I thought PM cost money, but someone negged me and said ->>
Partition without losin...
02-22-2003 09:32 PM Partition magic is free at download.com
I don't know never looked into it (I use fdisk too, primarily), but apparently this person was convinced that they had found it there. :)
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You should definitely learn to use FDISK. It will give you a warm feeling
of accomplishment and self-esteem.
You are now one of the elite.
:cool:
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Re: freeware
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Originally posted here by Dr_Evil
C’mmon guys, lets not break the copyright law. This is a security site. If Partition magic is expensive, we always have nice people who give us the freeware.
Well the following site offers a freeware that does the job. It is a boot master and it also comes with free partitioning tool.
http://www.xosl.org/
:p Dr_Evil
Xosl is actually a bootloader. It comes with Ranish though, but if I'm correct Ranish doesn't support NTFS.
Isn't there a shareware or trial version of partitionmagic ? If you only want to do this one thing, you might try that ;). NTFS and ext3 aren't really rare filesystems, so most decent partition tools should support them. For the unusual stuff I use fdisk, altough it can get a bit sloppy. Partitionmagic is cool because nothing can go wrong really, it does everything for you and much easier (and faster because you have to do less) then fdisk.
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Well the one question that hasn't been asked is, are you trying to resize an existing partition or is this a new install system?
If this is an existing system that you want to resize, then yes you have to use a partition resize program, but if you are installing a new system, then all you have to do is install XP, and set the partition sizes you need for it, leaving the partition that will be used for RH alone. Then install RH and use the partition setup during install to setup your RH partitions. RH should see the partitions as NTFS and actually ask you how you want to boot up. At least that's the steps I went through for dual booting RH and 2000.....
