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Anonymous   04-19-2005 at 09:59:44 AM

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hi,

i've got a doubt. i have a compaq presario m2013 laptop with winxp
preinstalled. the problem is i want to install red hat linux v7.0 & set
the laptop as dual-boot. the hdd is 40gigs with the only partition as
c: of 40 gigs. how do i format the hdd without losing my data?

thanx for any info.

punit

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Anonymous   04-19-2005 at 10:43:50 AM
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Hi,

To change the size of the partition use a program named "partition
magic"
But it is not a freeware.

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Anonymous   04-19-2005 at 09:42:09 PM
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Hi,
About 6 months ago I had a problem with this. I installed linux to dual
boot with XP and it had altered the MBR in such a way that XP refused to
boot or even be seen! Not sure if they have repaired this know, but at the
time the Linux crowd were blaming MS for using such an outdated method of
reading the MBR. I blamed Linux, as their packaging quite clearly states
that it can be dual booted when following their instructions.

I would pose this question on a Linux forum to see if this issue has been
fixed.

RobP
<arya.punit@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1113908384.496836.273310@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> hi,
>
> i've got a doubt. i have a compaq presario m2013 laptop with winxp
> preinstalled. the problem is i want to install red hat linux v7.0 & set
> the laptop as dual-boot. the hdd is 40gigs with the only partition as
> c: of 40 gigs. how do i format the hdd without losing my data?
>
> thanx for any info.
>
> punit
>

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Anonymous   04-20-2005 at 01:43:54 AM
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On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 15:42:09 +0000, ROBERT POLLARD wrote:

> Hi,
> About 6 months ago I had a problem with this. I installed linux to dual
> boot with XP and it had altered the MBR in such a way that XP refused to
> boot or even be seen! Not sure if they have repaired this know, but at the
> time the Linux crowd were blaming MS for using such an outdated method of
> reading the MBR. I blamed Linux, as their packaging quite clearly states
> that it can be dual booted when following their instructions.
>
> I would pose this question on a Linux forum to see if this issue has been
> fixed.
>
> RobP
> <arya.punit@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1113908384.496836.273310@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>> [quoted text muted]

If you're worried about using lilo or grub as the boot mangler, let the
ntbootldr do the job, and chuck the linux boot loader into the beginning
of the linux partition. It's pretty straight forward. Google for
instructions.
--
TimW

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Anonymous   04-20-2005 at 06:31:09 AM
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arya.punit@gmail.com wrote:

> i've got a doubt. i have a compaq presario m2013 laptop with winxp
> preinstalled. the problem is i want to install red hat linux v7.0 & set
> the laptop as dual-boot. the hdd is 40gigs with the only partition as
> c: of 40 gigs. how do i format the hdd without losing my data?

http://mlf.linux.rulez.org/mlf/ezaz/ntfsresize.html
http://www.sysresccd.org/

--
pa at panix dot com

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frank   04-20-2005 at 05:04:32 PM
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arya.punit@gmail.com wrote:

> hi,
>
> i've got a doubt. i have a compaq presario m2013 laptop with winxp
> preinstalled. the problem is i want to install red hat linux v7.0 & set
> the laptop as dual-boot. the hdd is 40gigs with the only partition as
> c: of 40 gigs. how do i format the hdd without losing my data?
>
> thanx for any info.
>
> punit
>
Linux is a great hobby that can quickly turn into a stinking job.
Frank

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Anonymous   04-21-2005 at 05:28:07 AM
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Frank wrote:
> arya.punit@gmail.com wrote:
>
> > hi,
> >
> > i've got a doubt. i have a compaq presario m2013 laptop with winxp
> > preinstalled. the problem is i want to install red hat linux v7.0 &
set
> > the laptop as dual-boot. the hdd is 40gigs with the only partition
as
> > c: of 40 gigs. how do i format the hdd without losing my data?
> >
> > thanx for any info.
> >
> > punit
> >
> Linux is a great hobby that can quickly turn into a stinking job.
> Frank

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