I helped a friend deal with the same situation by using a little utility called FIPS. You can find it on your Mandrake CD's. It doesn't have a fancy GUI but it will take you through the resizing process step-by-step and is really pretty easy to use.
TC --- tester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Charles Jennings wrote: > > >This ones got me baffled. I am trying to install > Mandrake 8.1 on my wifes > >computer. It's a pentium with a 10 gig hard drive > running win98. I try to > >install in the expert mode and resize it. I get the > massage that it can't be > >resized. After scandisk and defrag, and looking > into fdisk, there is 6.1 gig > >free but the whole disk is active for win. I don't > know why diskdrake won't > >resize it. I am not competent to use fdisk (never > done it and I don't want to > >erase the wife's hard drive by error). Any > suggestions on what might be the > >cause and the solution? > >Thanks. > > > > This one means that a windows program has placed a > non-relocatable > cluster near the end of the disk or that you are > using the NTFS > filesystem which we do not write-enable in the > install kernel. > > SInce you are running 98 which does not support > NTFS, do the disk defrag > and scroll down on the full display--near the bottom > you will find one > or more red-marked clusters. > > The solution is non-trivial, Either remove programs > one by one and > defrag and try linux after each such removal or > install linux on another > large disk with a grub boot, copy all of your > windows data over (but not > your installed programs), then scrub windows and go > back to fdisk and > set up windows on a smaller primary partition, > reinstalling software > then set up linux again on the primary master drive > and mount the second > drive to restore the data you wanted to back up. I > have done this in > another situation--a rather full 10G disk where > Win98 was installed and > the user attempted an XP upgrade, losing mouse and > keyboard (both > Microsoft brand hardware products, BTW) in the > process. I could not > shrink the winpartition enough to make room for the > 2.2G of data he > wanted to rescue, so I used a second disk and a > linux install on it, > then scrubbed the first disk after copyiong over the > info he wanted. > The clean install of XP still could not see his > mouse or keyboard, so > he is running 98 and Mandrake dual boot these days, > and he seems very > grateful that linux was able to save his data from > an otherwise trashed > situation. > > Civileme > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from > MandrakeSoft? > >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > > > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send your FREE holiday greetings online! http://greetings.yahoo.com
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