xp reserves swap space to work properly + its installed area. Linux installs must work carefully well clear of all this, & not try to cut xp's partition down excessively.
..going round in circles?
Douglas Royds wrote:
My own experience with XP and the Mandrake partition tool wasn't good. I defragged the XP drive (19Gb, about 6Gb used), then Mandrake only offered to cut it down to about 16Gb, claiming that the disk wasn't defragged. This would only have left me with about 2G for Linux.
The XP defrag put most of the data at the bottom of the NTFS partition, but left some of it about half-way up, with a gap in the middle. A bit of web-trawling revealed that NTFS does this to reserve space for some tables that it needs. If the disk gets too full, it then sacrifices this reserved space last. The net effect was that the Mandrake partitioning tool was fooled, and wouldn't do the job - not usefully, anyway. I had to resort to a proprietary solution.
Same here.
This was under MDK 9.2.
10 Official sounds better tho, on Robert's reports.
Douglas.
Sorry for getting your name wrong earlier Douglas.
- rik
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