Re: I can't partition my hard drive

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From: KoKain
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 00:00

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Heh we feel klusters pain. Anyway just try to use the ones including on the
linux install cd, such as disk druid, or go get Partition magic, it works
good with FAT32 and should work.

DarkEagle wrote in message <6qv4h2$29d$1@news1.inlink.com>...
>I've heard a lot of talk about Linux and open source software, so I decided
>that I wanted to look in and see what exactly Linux was.  Weeellll, I sat
>down to get started installing Slackware Linux and I couldn't partition my
>hard drive.   I tried using FIPS and it told me that my last cylinder
wasn't
>empty.  I had run windows defrag immediatly before running FIPS.  I was
>wondering if Windows might've written something to my hard drive while I
was
>closing down windows95.  I thought of using Dos defrag, but I noticed that
>when we installed Win95 it was overritten with win defrag.  Can anyone help
>me?
>
>Ryan
>E-Mail me at RDM@inlink.com
>
>

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From: "KoKain" <truancy@i-plus.net>
Subject: Re: I can't partition my hard drive
Date: 1998/08/14
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