On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 09:45:13PM +1300, Don Gould wrote: > 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.
Robs suggestion to install a second disk for debian is good advice unless Chris is absolutely certain about what the third fat32 partition is used for and can resize the second ntfs partition. There is a clug meeting next Tuesday 14th to bring the pc along to. > Grab a copy of gparted. url is here, a 29 Meg download. http://optusnet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gparted/gparted-livecd-0.3.1-1.iso gparted also comes on knoppix, ubuntu, suse-live, puppy. Email me if you would like a Puppy cd. > I didn't find debian to be the best for sorting out disks. that would be the command line 'parted' that is accessed from the "debian installer main menu" and selecting "execute a shell" 'parted print' and 'parted help' give info. --- keith.
