Mark_E_Wallace

Well, as it turns out, I ended up grabbing a copy of BootitNG (Terabyte Unlimited) and using the resizer that is built into it. "Seems" to have worked. I managed to resize down to 18GB and reboot back into XP okay. Haven't yet tried to do the MD install, but I'm guessing it'll work okay. Will report back here if I find any negative effects of BootitNG on my system. So far (knock on wood) so good. -- Mark

(Already posted this on alt.os.linux.mandrake. Hoping y'all can help too) This may be a FAQ. If so, please just feel free to point me in the right direction. Am trying to install Mandrake 9.2 onto a notebook w/ a 40GB drive with XP Pro already on it. The NTFS partition occupies the full drive right now. Goal is to resize the NTFS down to 15GB (or thereabouts), leaving the rest for MD9.2. Less than 6GB of the NTFS partition is used. Before trying the MD install, I disabled paging in XP, deleted the page file, rebooted, and defragmented the drive. The defrag went fine, but it still showed some contiguous (but not unmoveable) files about 2/3 of the way "down" the drive map. Next went to do the MD install. When I get to the point where I can customize the disk usage, diskdrake will only let me resize the NTFS partition from 37 down to around 35GB. Even if I go to advanced mode and manually enter in (say) 18000 MB as the adjusted NTFS partition size, it will still only bump down to 35GB. I'm stumped. What's the deal? Do I have to go to something like Partition Magic (which I'd rather not have to buy) for something seemingly this simple? Thanks, Mark