Charlie, Have you used the newest version (beta)? If so, did you think that it was stable enough to trust as a beta partitioner? Or is the version before it able to work with NTFS as well?
As for M$'s attitude on changing the O/S to make it hard to use freeware on it.... I think you may be giving them too much credit. When you are that arrogant and self-important, you only worry about the bigger picture and large competitors. If M$ really cared that much, they would have figured out some way to disable the use of Windows whenever someone loaded Linux for dual-booting. ;-) On the other hand, who's to say that they might now be working on that right now?.... Just my own flavor of cynicism towards the big M$. :-D T ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charlie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 11:53 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Fwd: Dual Boot? On Wednesday 06 November 2002 03:58 am, QingHua Wang wrote: > Hi there, > > Can you explain in detail about what you do for the dual booting? I am > struggling with this problem. I have asked about it but the answer is to > find some disk tools such as PatitionMagic to make a partition for Linux > from the predefined NTFS partition(WinXP). However, PartitionMagic is not a > free program. So can I share your experiences with this problem? Thanks in > advance. > > Wishes, > > QingHua. QingHua; Is there a reason you can't just totally start from scratch and build the partitions you need for XP and just leave a portion of the drive for Mandrake unformatted or formatted for FAT 32? That would make it easy to use diskdrake to do the chore afterward. For utilities to do the deed from predefined NTFS; pick one. The utilities you'll find at this link all seem to have either a "demo" or shareware version that you can try to resize the NTFS partition(s) on your drive without additional cost. All down-loadable I believe. I haven't used anything other than Ranish for this for many moons and choose not to work on pre-installed Windows XP machines if I can possibly avoid it. http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file_description/0,fid,6170,00.asp Does anyone else find it strange that Microsoft juggles the file system format just enough to kill the possibility of using built in _free software_; thus forcing one to pay good money to try something other than their operating system? Forcing people to "upgrade" to their "latest and greatest." Talk about getting you coming and going or what? Good luck! Regards; -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org "Are you sure you're not an encyclopedia salesman?" No, Ma'am. Just a burglar, come to ransack the flat." -- Monty Python ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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