> I want to install on a laptop that has one 7 Gig ntfs partition. I do not > want to reinstall win2k or its apps. > > Can this be done? I've heard that if you defrag the partition immediately before resizing it, you won't lose any data. If you're of a commercial bent, you could get a copy of partition magic. It does what you want. But it can crash and destroy the data, so back up first.