On Friday 08 December 2006 00:13, James wrote: > Etaoin Shrdlu <shrdlu <at> unlimitedmail.org> writes: > > > > Once again, I'm installing several amd64 systems with dual boot XP. > > > > I always have to nuke the XP, reformat, leave sda1 for XP and > > > > continue on with the install. Since I am installing Gentoo first > > > > Maybe I missed something, but why do you have to nuke XP in the first > > place? Can't you just use qtparted or any other tool to resize the > > windows partition and then go on with the gentoo install? > > That or many other methods never seem to work for me. XP is spread > out all over the disk and the recovery partition is very difficult to > deal with too.
You'll need to defrag & reboot a couple of times using the Administrative Tools/Disk Manager for the job before you shrink the WinXP partition. -- Regards, Mick
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