You might want to try Partition Commander. I've used it on a 10 Gig hard
drive and done almost everything to a partition you acn think of without
losing data.
Sam Walker
Ron Marriage wrote:
> That's not what I want to do. I already have linux and
> windows partitions with running OSes in each. I need to
> resize them, make windows much smaller, linux much bigger.
> Partition Magic gives a check failed message and right
> clicks or menu options don't work.
> Tech support said partition first extended beyond end of
> HD. Changed this but then even partition magic wouldn't
> start. We reset back to original, Changed them again to
> eliminate free space at end of HD. PM still gave a check
> failed error but but now said partitions overlapped and
> check still failed.
>
> After contacting Powerquest tech support by phone and email,
> they had me run several copies of info program and send the
> report to them. After several weeks, I've stopped hearing
> from them and they no longer respond to email. The last
> email I got was 10 days ago, saying they got the report and
> would look at it and respond the next day.
>
> It's OK, I was told fips does a non-destructive resize and
> I'll use it.
> PM will be just another windows program I can delete, <grin>
>
> Thanks for all the help.
> It was much appreciated.
> Ron
>
> Brian Whitman wrote:
>
> > When using PM I find that the easiest thing to do is
> > right click on the table and select resize-move form
> > list. Make the size partiton you want and then right
> > click it again to create the type of partition you
> > want fat32 or linux, linux-swap. You need to do this
> > for each partition type. I used PM and had no
> > problems with it. Install it into windows first then
> > install linux into the created partition. Reboot into
> > windows install bootmagic and everything should work
> > fine. Hope this helps some. Brian
> >
>
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