ridcully — Sat, 26 Feb 2005 13:18:55 +0000

Be careful with partitioning. It was like playing with matches in my case... Two days to get back to the previous state - because of broken partition program.

rtroxel — Sun, 20 Feb 2005 12:41:30 +0000

Quote: A 40GB 7200 RPM HD costs under $50 which is probably cheaper and safer than buying PM.

I bought one of these from Newegg. I also puchased Acronis Disk Director to partition it, and some other drives I have.

Then I bought the Red Hat Fedora Bible which contained 4 Fedora 2 CDs. So far, it works OK, except for the dual boot. When I get some time, I'll figure that out, too. Disk Director has a way of setting it up.

mairving — Mon, 14 Feb 2005 16:07:23 +0000

Well I wouldn't go with RH9 as it is basically dead. You will need to go to Fedora or Mandrake or one of the others. Disk druid should be able to resize your partition for you. It seems like from past experience it kind of does it for you automatically. You can't really use Fdisk. It will create the partitions but will will also destroy the old one, i.e. as in lose all of your data. Partition Magic is a great tool but I think that it is dated. Ranish is probably the next best free one. What I would probably do is see if you can either find another small hard drive or buy one. A 40GB 7200 RPM HD costs under $50 which is probably cheaper and safer than buying PM.

Greg K — Mon, 14 Feb 2005 06:15:50 +0000

I did a search on google for "free partition resize" and this is one of the sites that came up:

http://www.thefreecountry.com/utilities/partitioneditors.shtml

seems to have links to some free programs that can resize your partitions.

-Greg

karmaman — Sun, 13 Feb 2005 16:49:34 +0000

Hi I just use a version of fdisk from an old boot disk it works fine,you can download a copy from http://www.23cc.com/free-fdisk/
hope this helps.