Partitioning HDD

[Jus!]

Hi.
I have Win XP home edition installed on my pc and im interested in
installing Linux as well. Therefore i will need to partition my HDD again to
allow for two partitions. How am i able to do this, as i have only ever
partitioned a HDD before installing windows. Any help/tips would be greatly
appreciated.

Jus

 

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

Jus;
You can not do it with Windows native tools without reinstalling
Windows.
You can use a 3rd party application and preserve data:
http://www.bootitng.com/
http://www.symantec.com/partitionmagic/

 

[Harry Ohrn]

If you want to create additional partitions you have to either start over
with a fresh install of XP and create your partitions prior to reinstalling
the operating system again, OR, you purchase a third party repartitioning
app like BootIt NG or Partition Magic which can do the job without forcing
you to lose your current setup. However I'd suggest that you purchase a
second hard drive to install Linux on rather than trying to set it up on the
same drive as your current Windows setup. This is much safer in my opinion.

 

[Jus!]

Thanks for all your help guys. I think i will go with the 2nd HDD idea.

Jus

If you want to create additional partitions you have to either start over
with a fresh install of XP and create your partitions prior to reinstalling
the operating system again, OR, you purchase a third party repartitioning
app like BootIt NG or Partition Magic which can do the job without forcing
you to lose your current setup. However I'd suggest that you purchase a
second hard drive to install Linux on rather than trying to set it up on the
same drive as your current Windows setup. This is much safer in my opinion.

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Harry Ohrn MS-MVP [Shell/User]
www.webtree.ca/windowsxp

Hi.
I have Win XP home edition installed on my pc and im interested in
installing Linux as well. Therefore i will need to partition my HDD again
to
allow for two partitions. How am i able to do this, as i have only ever
partitioned a HDD before installing windows. Any help/tips would be
greatly
appreciated.

Jus

 

[Guest]

The best thing you can do is use a program called " partition magic" , this has many utilities available to use. For example making a new partition or resizing an existing one. Good luck and have fun.

 

[Guest]

Go for partition magic very easy to use and allows for setting up partitions for different operating systems so you can do dual boot

 

[Don MI]

Hi.
I have Win XP home edition installed on my pc and im interested in
installing Linux as well. Therefore i will need to partition my HDD again to
allow for two partitions. How am i able to do this, as i have only ever
partitioned a HDD before installing windows. Any help/tips would be greatly
appreciated.

Jus

Are you such that you want to install the Linux version you are considering
as a permanent installation. If you just want to check it out, you may want
to visit www.langa.com and look at recent newsletter articles on the
Microsoft Virtual PC. This applications allows you to create a virtual PC
within your current Windows XP for checking out other operating systems,
beta applications etc in an isolated environment.

Don

 

[Darren Meger]

If you can get a copy of Partition Magic 8.0, you can specify that you want
to create a linux partition. Or, if you want to take the chance in loosing
your version of Windows, you can create a partition while going throught the
linux setup process. If you can get a copy of Partition Magic, you'll be
saving a lot of time and frustration.

 

[Harry Ohrn]

Mandrake 10 is a nice distro.

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Harry Ohrn MS-MVP [Shell/User]
www.webtree.ca/windowsxp

Thanks for all your help guys. I think i will go with the 2nd HDD idea.

Jus

If you want to create additional partitions you have to either start over
with a fresh install of XP and create your partitions prior to reinstalling
the operating system again, OR, you purchase a third party repartitioning
app like BootIt NG or Partition Magic which can do the job without forcing
you to lose your current setup. However I'd suggest that you purchase a
second hard drive to install Linux on rather than trying to set it up on the
same drive as your current Windows setup. This is much safer in my opinion.

--

Harry Ohrn MS-MVP [Shell/User]
www.webtree.ca/windowsxp

Hi.
I have Win XP home edition installed on my pc and im interested in
installing Linux as well. Therefore i will need to partition my HDD again
to
allow for two partitions. How am i able to do this, as i have only ever
partitioned a HDD before installing windows. Any help/tips would be
greatly
appreciated.

Jus

 

[Alex Nichol]

The best thing you can do is use a program called " partition magic" , this has many utilities available to use. For example making a new partition or resizing an existing one.

Or BootIT NG, from http://www.BootitNG.com ($35 shareware - 30 day full
functional trial)
Maybe a bit less intuitive in use - but cheaper and just as effective

 

[Guest]

Depending on which Linux you go for you can let it resize the parttions for
you (automatically). I have XP / SuSE 9.1 dual booting at the moment on a
40Gb drive. This was split by the linux install into two 20Gb partitons, but
i could have told it to do 30/10, 25/15, etc. The only thing is the boot
loader (LILO/Grub) which is installed over the windows one - if you break
that, it's quite difficult to get back to windows.