On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, Eric wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Actually, I'm using RH-8.0 on all my 40 Gb HDD. The
> bad news is I want to play some games and I don't have
> choice to re-install back win98. I think to take about
> 3Gb for win.
> So, there is a way to create a windows partition
> *without* to loose my datas? If so, how?
>
> Thanks!
> Eric
>
There are several utilities that will resize partitions. The problem
you will run into with most of them is that you can not change the start
of an ext2 or ext3 partition. Another problem is that Windows 98 needs
to be installed on a primary partition on the first hard drive. You may
also run into problems if Windows in at the end of the drive, depending
on the BIOS of the machine.
If you can create a usable partition, make sure you have a workign Linux
boot disk before installing Windows, as the Win98 install will wipe out
the boot loader, so you will need the boot disk to access Linux, and
re-install the boot loader.
If you end up having to create a Windows partition near the front of the
drive, you may still be able to save most of your data, depending on how
you have things partitioned now...
Mikkel
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