On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 23:05, Andrei Raevsky wrote: > Hi, > > I have a 19GB hard disk on an old machine running Windows2000. I am > really fed up with the W2k and I would like to install Mandrake 9.1. Here > is my dilemma: this computer has only one disk (19GB NTFS about half > full), I have data on this disk (files) which I would like to preserve and > not loose, I have no means to make a backup. Can I install Mandrake 9.1 > on the free part of my NTFS partition only (turning it into a, say, 5-8GB > ReiserFS linux partition) WITHOUT loosing my data? > > > Many thanks! > > Andrei
Having been in this situation before, what I did was to defrag the NTFS partition first, then resize the partition (luckily I have Partition Magic and did the resize from the rescue disks) - once the resize was complete, I installed linux on the remaining partition; I then moved the data that was necessary over to the linux partitions - each time then going back and doing a defrag and resize until all the data that I wanted off that partition was off the partition...but that's just one way of dealing with it. -- Thu Jul 17 00:20:01 EST 2003 00:20:01 up 2 days, 16:23, 2 users, load average: 0.39, 0.21, 0.16 ----------------------------------------------------------------- | __ __ |kuhn media australia | | /-oo /| |'-. |http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |================================| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn | | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ----------------------------------------------------------------- linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1+ & RH 9 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 ----------------------------------------------------------------- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * Never invest your money in anything that eats or needs repainting. -- Billy Rose
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