Re: Partitioning a primary hard drive for two OS's
From: Rick \ (rick_at_mvps.org)
Date: 01/30/05
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Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 10:41:47 -0500
Hi Randy,
Most iterations of Linux include drive tools that will allow you to carve
out some free space on the existing drive. Otherwise, you will need to use a
third-party tool to do this.
Boot Managers and Partitioning programs:
BootIT NG www.terabyteunlimited.com
Partition Magic www.powerquest.com/partitionmagic
Partition Commander http://www.v-com.com/product/pc_ind.html
Ranish Partition Manager http://www.ranish.com/part/
The first one, BootIT NG, would be my choice. You don't need to install it,
but rather just create the floppy and boot from it. At setup, cancel out and
go into maintenance. There you can shrink the existing partition and create
the needed ext partitions for the Linux installation.
-- Best of Luck, Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone Windows help - www.rickrogers.org "Randy Shapiro" <Randy Shapiro@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:98F3F4B2-D598-4598-8A86-40BF643F7252@microsoft.com... > Hi, > I have a single 40GB hard drive and I want to partition it. Windows XP > Pro > is already installed on that drive. When I did the initial setup of XP, I > only made that singleprimary partition that consumed the entire drive. > The > whole thing is formatted in NTFS. Now, I want to play around with a Linux > build, and I want to take 10GB of the free space on that hard drive and > create a partition so I can format it in a way that Linux can read it. > How > can I do this? I tried Computer Management/Disk Management but it did not > allow me to do this. What are my options? > > Thanks, > -Randy
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