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c17 wrote:

> Is there any good partition freeware that will allow me to repartition my
> hardrive, and install Linux, without destroying my current version of
> windows and my data,

Depends on which veersion of linux you have.  Many of the newer ones will
automatically do this for you.  For instance I recently set up a
win98/mandrake7.1  dual boot.  Windows was already on the puter.  I started
the mandrake cd and chose linux fo windows, this partioned my harddrive and
installed linux without touching the windows data.  Everything seems to work
fine.  I'm happy.

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c17 wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>Is there any good partition freeware that will allow
me to repartition my
<br>hardrive, and install Linux, without destroying my current version
of
<br>windows and my data,</blockquote>
<font size=+4>Depends on which veersion of linux you have.&nbsp; Many of
the newer ones will automatically do this for you.&nbsp; For instance I
recently set up a win98/mandrake7.1&nbsp; dual boot.&nbsp; Windows was
already on the puter.&nbsp; I started the mandrake cd and chose linux fo
windows, this partioned my harddrive and installed linux without touching
the windows data.&nbsp; Everything seems to work fine.&nbsp; I'm happy.</font></html>

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there is a good partition program, its called fips, and it comes with your
linux CD as a standard.
how to activate it :
1) under windows you defrag the hard drive - ( so in case you have 10%
used  but its so fragmanted its at the near end of the drive you wont have
it  deleted or run over )
2) you create a boot disk with the fips software on it ( best to create
another rescue disk ).
3) you boot your computer with fips
4) you activate fips from the boot cd
5) you choose the size of the first partition and the size of the second
one the first contains the data you already have, the second the data you
plan to put on. so its important the first one be made by yoou more than
enough to contain your data.
6) save the data and reboot
7) Important!!! put the rescue disk inside before you let windows work its
magic again, and choose drive fix, ( scandisk, fdisk, norton disk doctor )
whatever out of the boot disk.
8) when it announces it finished all fixes ( and it will report problems
to fix, be sure ofthat ) reboot and let windows finally take over.

final notes:
1) if  you dont do step 8+7, you will get all sorts of wierd data and
computer configuration, because the data is only half complete
2) fips has an undo utility
3) if you have fat32 its important to use ONLY fips 2.0+
4) I have used this system and it worked perfectly on my pc.

so i hope i helped and good luck, and if you dont wanna use fips thats ok
too, but its non destructive and its great, i am a happy user



On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, Dave M. wrote:

> c17 wrote:
>
> > Is there any good partition freeware that will allow me to repartition my
> > hardrive, and install Linux, without destroying my current version of
> > windows and my data,
>
> Depends on which veersion of linux you have.  Many of the newer ones will
> automatically do this for you.  For instance I recently set up a
> win98/mandrake7.1  dual boot.  Windows was already on the puter.  I started
> the mandrake cd and chose linux fo windows, this partioned my harddrive and
> installed linux without touching the windows data.  Everything seems to work
> fine.  I'm happy.
>

Not freeware , but Partition Magic can do a nice job.

"c17" <someone@microsoft.com> wrote in message
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: Is there any good partition freeware that will allow me to repartition my
: hardrive, and install Linux, without destroying my current version of
: windows and my data,
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If you have any recent Linux distribution (such as RedHat Linux >5.0, Suse 
>4.0, Mandrake >4.0, Debian >3.0) then you dont need to worry about this, 
their installer have a partition software to do that, but anyway remember 
to first defragment the partition where you have win9x