On Sat, 2004-05-29 at 04:05, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > Maybe I'm a little too simplistic here, but if there is enough space > on her laptop, you could try to install - at least a minimal - > Mandrake on it. I think it is possible to "shrink" even a NTFS > partition. And if your friend did what my daughter did, namely > bought her laptop with WinddowsXP pre-installed, chances are that > there is an extra "restore" FAT32 partition (in M$ palor : D-drive) > on it. If so, you can safely let Mandrake shrink that partition > and then install a minimal Mandrake on the remaining space. From > there, you could burn (it has a burner, right?) the personal files > to CD. Finally, reinstall the WinXP, or dump it altogether. > > HTH > > Kaj Haulrich.
Kaj, TOO MUCH WORK. K.I.S.S. Keep it simple, stupid (g) Use Knoppix to boot, connect to a network, copy the data to a machine on the network, then blow it out completely. Safer than trying to resize a partition, eh? stephen kuhn - owner ============================== illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com ------------------------------------------------------------------ * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents ------------------------------------------------------------------ One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say. -- Will Durant
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