Re-partitioning failing...
I recently bought a vprMatrix laptop and am trying to setup a dual boot
winXP/Debian configuration.
I'm used to using fips to repartition windows drives non-destructively, however
it can't handle the NTFS partition. So I tried PowerQuests's Partition Magic
to resize the existing partition to make room for Debian.
Running PM8 under WinXP I resized the 30 GB drive to about 8 GB for WinXP and
22 for Debian. It says it needs to reboot to make the changes. I let it
reboot. I see some message from PM come up during the boot up, screen flashes
a few times and windows boots back up. I run PM8 to check the current state of
the partitions and there is no change.
I tried running PM8 off the bootable CD in dos mode, make the same desired
partition table and hit apply,
I receive an "Volume bitmap wrong size file 6 (128)" error message.
Can anyone offer any advice?
Eric
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