Hi, all -- Well, I have almost figured out how to move my Win XP Home slice from the beginning of the disk to the end of the disk. [Actually, I hear that a util like Ghost will do it, but I ain't payin' money to keep XP around! :-] I still need help, though. I have a Toshiba Satellite laptop, and their recovery disk insists on wiping out the entire drive to put back their original build all over my whole disk. Yuck. That will never do, and it's time for a fresh Linux install and I'm taking another crack at getting the thing moved. For starters, I used dd to copy the partition from hda1 to hda4 (preset to the same size) and confirmed that each was mountable. I then booted Win from slice 1 and saw both; yay. I then booted Win from slice 4 and saw both -- but slice 1 was still my system partition! I cleared the entry for slice 1 and booted from 4 and it gave me an error, still pointing to 1 and now telling me that it couldn't find itself. A phone call later, I found that the boot.ini file is actually used by the system to figure out what its root drive is, so I recreated slice 1 (simply by defining it at the same cylinders again), booted, and edited the boot.ini file on slice 4. It started to boot, showing the green beads going back and forth (flashback to Battlestar Galactica, anyone?), but then puked out saying that an autock program wasn't found and then resetting with a flash of fatal error I could never catch. Darn. Then I had [what I thought was] a brilliant idea... Since it wants to be on slice 1, let's just define that at the back end of the disk! So I fix boot.ini in that copy and redefine 1 as the last cylinders and boot and this time it gets all the way to the light blue screen where my list of users should appear -- but the list never comes. Drat. Does anyone have any ideas how, now that I have shrunk (via some heavy disk defragging and optimization, ntfsresize, and changing the last cyl number of slice 1) the original whole-disk-hda1 to a 3G hda1, I can move that to the last 3G of the disk so that I can give my swap space those fast cylinders? TIA & HAND :-D -- David T-G * There is too much animal courage in (play) davidtg@justpickone.org * society and not sufficient moral courage. (work) davidtgwork@justpickone.org -- Mary Baker Eddy, "Science and Health" http://justpickone.org/davidtg/ Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg!
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