These are my favorite partition manipulation tools. They complement one another, so collect 'em all:
* Parted, available through freshmeat. You want to download the floppy disk image and run it from a floppy. It's Linux based, open source, and so well documented even I understand it. I'm not sure if it plays nice with NTFS, so test first. Works great with FAT32, for what that's worth. * Partition Resizer, available through tucows.com. DOS based freeware but not open source. It strives to be a freeware alternative to Partition Magic. Again, I'm not sure if it does NTFS. Good luck, Franki. If nothing works and you have to do the format-and-reinstall dance, install Windows as FAT32 rather than NTFS if possible. (If you're on a local network, check with your sysadmin first.) Decent NTFS tools are hard to find. One other thing: on your failed test with Ghost, take a look at C:/boot.ini (which is Windows 2000's lobotomized version of lilo.conf). Maybe the only thing wrong was a bad configuration file. Warren El sáb, 24-08-2002 a las 16:49, Franki escribió: > Hi guys, > > This is the wrong forum for this question, but I thought I'd ask anyway. > > I have a problem on one of my dual boot machines, in this case the problem > is with the windows side of things. (win2000 pro SP3 to be precise) > > Anyway, I have a 40 gig in this PC, unfortunately I thought a 1.5gig NTFS > partition would be enough for just win2000 (all applications are loaded onto > another partition) unfortunately, win2000 with all the service packs, > hotfixes, patches etc etc etc take up that whole drive to the point where it > has only 100mb free. (not enough to even run defrag on it.) even with the > windows swapfile on another partition. > > There are several other NTFS partitions on this drive, and I'd love to > shrink one of them a couple of gig and enlarge the win2000 partition by > same... > > Is partitionmagic the only one that can do that? I will probably never need > it again so I don't really want to buy it..(120 dollars + over here in Oz.) > (I have an old version of Ghost, which I tried to use to resize the > partition but it clagged the win2000 install on the test drive I tried it on > because it didn't update NTFS correctly to the new size) > > Is there an open source tool for this or am I out of luck??? > > > Any tips would be great. I cringe asking winblows questions, but I have to > have windoze on this one PC for work, so I figure you guys would understand. > > > regards > > > Franki > > > ---- > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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