I can't partition my hard drive

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3 total messages Started by DarkEagle Thu, 13 Aug 1998 00:00

#1030

Author: DarkEagle
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 00:00

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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

Re: I can't partition my hard drive

#1028

Author: 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
>
>

Re: I can't partition my hard drive

#1029

Author: kluster
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 00:00

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DarkEagle wrote:
> 
> 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
Why do you cross-post?  What is the point of having different ng's if
you are going to spread your beans all over?  You are pissing-off some
people who may have wanted to reply...
AARrrrrrrggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh,,,,,,,,,,,,

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