Eric D Nielsen, 2002-Dec-22 20:17 -0500: > I recently bought a vprMatrix laptop and am trying to setup a dual boot > winXP/Debian configuration. > > I'm used to using fips to repartition windows drives non-destructively, > however > it can't handle the NTFS partition. So I tried PowerQuests's Partition Magic > to resize the existing partition to make room for Debian. > > Running PM8 under WinXP I resized the 30 GB drive to about 8 GB for WinXP and > 22 for Debian. It says it needs to reboot to make the changes. I let it > reboot. I see some message from PM come up during the boot up, screen flashes > a few times and windows boots back up. I run PM8 to check the current state > of > the partitions and there is no change. > > I tried running PM8 off the bootable CD in dos mode, make the same desired > partition table and hit apply, > I receive an "Volume bitmap wrong size file 6 (128)" error message. > > Can anyone offer any advice? > Eric
I recommend converting the NTFS to FAT32. I believe you can do this with built-in tools on WinXP. This will give you a much better supported filesystem. After the conversion, you can resize using PM8 and see if it works. If it doesn't, I would recommend parted. NTFS is a pita to work with in anything other than a pure MS environment. jc -- Jeff Coppock Systems Engineer Diggin' Debian Admin and User
