On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 11:48 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm gonna take a risk and try to turn my kid's and wife's Windows 2000 laptop
> into a dual boot Ubuntu/W2K laptop.
>
> Is there open source software to shrink the Win2K partition that is 100% safe?
Nothing is 100% safe. On the other hand, Gparted and Pmagic are two
different GUI implementations of the same open-source partitioning
tools. (GNU Partition Editor) I have found both of them to be
reliable. Yet another version of this software is built into the
installer for Ubuntu;
By the way, when you say "Win2K partition" do you mean FAT32 or NTFS
file system?
Before working on the repartitioning, you should of course use the
Windows tools to defragment the file system.
> Can it toast the Windows installation?
Of course, if you want to. Infrequently if you don't want to.
carl
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