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WinXP and MDK9.2?


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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

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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.

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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.

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