> Hi Folks, > > I have downloaded Debian and decided to give that a try. I'm a little > stuck however in repartitioning my hard disk. The Debian installer says > the disk has 2 divisions: > *The first being a fat16 of about 16MB > *The second NTFS 72.3GB > *The third fat32 about 10MB > Why does it show fat 16 and fat 32 when XP runs on NTFS by default?
They might be hidden partitions or partitions for the default build image for Windows. > In summary I want to resize my Windows partition by about 15BG less (to be > left for Linux) WITHOUT corrupting the data. > Suggestions please- Resizing NTFS partitions is frought with risk, especiaslly for someone without a good knowledge of what they are doing. Somes distros have partitioning software and options when installing but I do not know about Debian. It is generally advisable to do a thorough defrag first too. A safer way to build a dual boot system is to install a second hard drive. They are pretty cheap second hand now. I think it is also advisable to create a FAT32 partition which can be used to share files between windows and Linux. Rob
