MoonChild Posted December 8, 2003 Report Share Posted December 8, 2003 I will install MDK9.2 on a friend's computer. She has P4 2.6 with 512MB RAM. One partition, NTFS, 120GBs. Will the Mandrake installer correctly resize an NTFS partition, or is there chance of loosing information? She has way too much data on it to just burn them on a couple of CDs. Should I go ahead or not? Anything special I should do? Michalis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pzatch Posted December 8, 2003 Report Share Posted December 8, 2003 I would use a third party partitoner/resizer I just don't trust Mandrake to correctly resize NTFS partitions yet. All you need do is make one large partiton for linux unformated and the Mandrake installer will find it and let you choose what to do with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonMage Posted December 8, 2003 Report Share Posted December 8, 2003 I have no problem with Mandrake's NTFS resizer. I think Mandrake uses a version of parted (open source FS resizer/formatter) than something 3rd party (like SuSE with its acronis utility). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted December 8, 2003 Report Share Posted December 8, 2003 I would use a windex utility to resize/create another partition. With xp, windex places data on the beginning and the end of the partition, mostly to thwart the efforts of third party partitioning tools. Use windex to resize/create the second partition, and do not format it. If you are forced to format the new partition, (a likely possibility with windex) use fat32, not ntfs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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