Rob's right. The fat patitions will have something to do with
recovering the disk for sure. All of my HP gear came with fat pats in
places.
Grab a copy of gparted. I didn't find debian to be the best for sorting
out disks. Gparted is good thou and the boot cd image of the web site
isn't that big.
Cheers Don
Robert Fisher wrote:
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
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