On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 22:39:17 -0800 "Kevin O'Gorman" <kogor...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dude, I'm getting a Dell! > > It's gonna come with Vista, and I have to use it that way for work. > But I want to > put a Linux partition on there. So I need to repartition. > > Having learned to be cautious, I'm wondering if there is a good > open-source way to back up about 300GB of NTFS such that I can > restore fairly smoothly. It has to be fairly fast, so file-by-file > copies are probably going to suck. I'll have 100MB > ethernet to a big-enough drive. > > Then, I'm wondering about partitioning tools. I can use > PartitionMagic 7.0. I've heard > of gparted, but not used it. Any advice? Um, I thought Vista could resize it's own partitions... Also, if it's a new machine, use the re-install disk for your back up ;) RobbieAB
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