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Re: Howto repartition a fat32 disk of win xp?



Joris Huizer wrote:

Joris Huizer wrote:

Kent West wrote:

Joris Huizer wrote:

How can I resize the 40GB partition [with WinXP on it] 10 GB smaller (to add new partitions) without any data loss? I only have the debian woody 3.0r1 installation CS's available.


If it's FAT32-formatted (highly unlikely), you can use fips or gparted. If it's NTFS-formatted (most likely), the only solution I know of is the commercial (cha-ching$) product "Partition Magic".


No it really is FAT32-formatted - I assume this is because this XP was installed over a windows 98 (as 98 missed some drivers my dad "just" bought a XP CD :-/ ) I can't find gparted or fips on the first CD, just cfdisk, on which CD is it supposed to be? (I didn't go through all CD's yet but...) if gparted is really the GNU parted program I prefer that as in the manual resizing seemed to be very straightforward. Should I try another one of the installation CD's ? I have 6 different CD's...



Sorry I did a bit more searching... I see parted is on the second CDROM but if I start it isn't available -


That's because it relies on X, which relies on Linux being installed. You can either boot off a Knoppix CD (or something similar) and run it from there, or you can download fips from the net (just google for it); it's a DOS-based program, very small, fits on a floppy. Just download fips to C:\, and then boot into DOS (either use F8 when WinXP is starting and hope it gives you the option to boot into DOS mode (I doubt it), or prepare/acquire a DOS floppy and boot off of it, then run c:\fips.

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Kent



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