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Posted: Sep. 12 2005,02:42 QUOTE
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cfdisk is all about creating partitions.
It won't create an ntfs partition, though...ntfs is a closed format. The best you can do is clear that crap out completely and replace it with a real filesystem.

Thanks for your quick response.  I'm trying to partition my hda ( C drive ) which now has Win2000  loaded on.  I want to create 3 new partitions for a frugal install of DSL.  Is this possible?
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Posted: Sep. 12 2005,03:00 QUOTE
I think you can resize an existing partition, but i'm just guessing...the last time i resized a widows partition was with partition magic.

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Posted: Sep. 12 2005,17:27 QUOTE
Partition magic works fine, but it is a commercial program that costs money.

qtparted works fine for either resizing partitions or creating new ones.

I believe that there is a qtparted extension in the repository but I have not personally used it.

Instead, I used KNOPPIX that comes with qtparted plus all required dependencies already included inside the livecd.  Its a big download, but it's free and easy to use.

You may need to DEFRAG your partition from within Windows before you can resize it from qtparted
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Posted: Sep. 13 2005,02:04 QUOTE
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Partition magic works fine, but it is a commercial program that costs money.

qtparted works fine for either resizing partitions or creating new ones.

I believe that there is a qtparted extension in the repository but I have not personally used it.

Instead, I used KNOPPIX that comes with qtparted plus all required dependencies already included inside the livecd.  Its a big download, but it's free and easy to use.

You may need to DEFRAG your partition from within Windows before you can resize it from qtparted

Thanks for the advise.  I may try that to see how it works.

I do have another hard drive I could put in  this box.  Right now I have a 10g h/d which is hooked up on IDE1 and is loaded up with Win2k. Can I move this drive to IDE2 ? Will W2k complain?  Will I still be able to boot W2k?  If this is possible I could hook up a 40g h/d to IDE1 and install DSL after setting up partitions ?  Will work ?  

Thanks for your help....
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