Really??? AFAIK fips only handles FAT type partitions, not NTFS.  Just
checked the fips homepage and can't find any mention of NTFS there.  I
don't have an NTFS partition to try it on (and I'm REAL sorry about that
;-)

Brian

On Sun, 2002-02-17 at 20:07, mess-mate wrote:
> NO ! You don't need any commercial software.
> First of all, make space with the 'defragmenter' of windoooz 
> if the hd is fully added to windooooz.
> To do so :
> 1.unhide your hidden and system files with 'attrib -H -S' and to see 
> them 'dir /a:s /s'
> 2. have no other prog running as necessary when defragment.
> 
> Then use 'fips' (available in the 1st cd ) for resizing the hd.
> 
> On Sunday 17 February 2002 01:37, you wrote:
> | Dear Crashtesters,
> | I friend of my daughter is interested about linux. Hi has a
> | computer runing windows XP and I have heard that to open space in 
> | the partition of the harddisk Disdrake is not enought due to the
> | use of the NTFS system; is that true?
> | In this case should be neccesary partition magic or there exists
> | any opensource package to do that?
> |
> | Thanks so much for your help in advance
> |
> | Francisco Alcaraz
> | Murcia (Spain)
> 
> -- 
> mess-mate
> 
> 
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