[NBLUG/talk] Dual-Booting/XP repartition

[sbenn at cds1.net]

Dave,

I have a Sony VAIO (desktop) which came pre-loaded with XP.
After two evenings of grumbling and *$%#&% I finally found a well hidden and 
undocumented utility which allowed me to repartition the disk quite easily.  

If you are still interested I will try to find the utility again.

Sue



> On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 10:38:50PM -0700, Dave Sisley wrote:
> > Hi, guys:
> > I'll just say this up front:  This is more of a <gasp> windows </gasp> 
> > question, but I only ask it because what I *really* want to run is linux.
> > 
> > I just got a new dell with XP pre-loaded and I (of course!) want to put 
> > RH8 on it ASAP in a dual boot setup.  I'm having trouble with the 
> > repartitioning of the HD, however.  It's a 30G drive with gobs of room.
> > 
> > Does anyone know of a 'simple' way to repartition the drive without:
> > - buying PartitionMagic
> > - Reinstalling XP
> 
> http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/bootitng.html -- Shareware, Free trial,
> $29.95 if you keep it.
> I thought I heard mention of a tool with recent Mandrake distro's that
> might do it, but I'm not sure.
> 
> 
> Regarding your later comments, running Linux inside a virtual machine
> hosted on Windoze really defeats the purpose of running Linux.  One of
> it's strongest points is that you can run all sorts of tasks at once and
> they'll usually not get in your way.  I curse and scream every time I
> have to use windows to:
> 
> a) Use the floppy (what is is switching to Real Mode or something?)
> b) have to copy several dozen megabytes of data
> c) anything else that requires windoze to think and chew gum at the same
> time.
> 
> 
> -troy
> 
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