Do a first look with 'fdisk' to see what filesystem you have. On Sunday 17 February 2002 10:47, you wrote: | Really??? AFAIK fips only handles FAT type partitions, not NTFS. | Just checked the fips homepage and can't find any mention of NTFS | there. I don't have an NTFS partition to try it on (and I'm REAL | sorry about that ;-) | | Brian | | On Sun, 2002-02-17 at 20:07, mess-mate wrote: | > NO ! You don't need any commercial software. | > First of all, make space with the 'defragmenter' of windoooz | > if the hd is fully added to windooooz. | > To do so : | > 1.unhide your hidden and system files with 'attrib -H -S' and to | > see them 'dir /a:s /s' | > 2. have no other prog running as necessary when defragment. | > | > Then use 'fips' (available in the 1st cd ) for resizing the hd. | > | > On Sunday 17 February 2002 01:37, you wrote: | > | Dear Crashtesters, | > | I friend of my daughter is interested about linux. Hi has a | > | computer runing windows XP and I have heard that to open space | > | in the partition of the harddisk Disdrake is not enought due to | > | the use of the NTFS system; is that true? | > | In this case should be neccesary partition magic or there | > | exists any opensource package to do that? | > | | > | Thanks so much for your help in advance | > | | > | Francisco Alcaraz | > | Murcia (Spain) | > | > -- | > mess-mate | > | > | > ---- | > | > | > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? | > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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