There are complete Linux distributions that can boot from CD, like
Knoppix / SuSe live-eval.
I suggest booting from CD, having NTFS resize then doing the real
installation on the hard disk.
But I'm not sure that Knoppix / SuSe has NTFS resize option on the CD.
Eli Billauer wrote:
Hello all.
I
On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Maor Meir wrote:
On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Slava Shklyar wrote:
Try Partition Magic ...
Also, if you are going to install Linux, some distributions have own
partition tools with NTFS support ...
To the best of my knowledge there is only one free software
ntfs resize
Hello all.
I have a nasty problem with my newly bought Presario 2121EA Laptop.
Well, the problem is really with XP. But on a laptop, a reinstall of XP
doesn't sound like much fun.
The thingy came with a 18GB hard disk, in one partition of NTFS. I want
to resize it to 5 GB (this is the Linux
Give PartitionMagic a try, if you can. I don't know how it works with
XP, but at least with Windows 2000 It does make wonders ;-). Although
not being free, I think it's an excellent piece of software.
Emil
On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Eli Billauer
Try Partition Magic ...
Also, if you are going to install Linux, some distributions have own
partition tools with NTFS support ...
Eli Billauer wrote:
Hello all.
I have a nasty problem with my newly bought Presario 2121EA Laptop.
Well, the problem is really with XP. But on a laptop, a
On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Slava Shklyar wrote:
Try Partition Magic ...
Also, if you are going to install Linux, some distributions have own
partition tools with NTFS support ...
To the best of my knowledge there is only one free software
ntfs resize tool, and their are various frontends for it,
Hello again.
To begin with, I've ran defrag a zillion of times. There is this
stubborn chunk that doesn't go away.
And keep in mind that I don't need a resizing tool. I need a
reallocation of files (which is commonly done with defrag).
Now Partition Magic: There has indeed been rumors about
On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Eli Billauer wrote:
Google to the rescue!
punching in: 'ntfs defrag' into google gave intresting results,
mainly:
http://www.storageadmin.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=13714
which lists a few defrag tools, some of which have a trial
version downloadeable free.
I did not
Hello All.
The good news are that a good defragmentation application exists: It's
OO Defrag, available for a 30-day complete trial at
http://www.oo-software.com/en/index.html. 30 days should be enough to
repartition, I think.
This tools offers several defragmentation algorithms, and it can
