On Thursday 12 July 2001 04:22, you wrote:
> This time I was trying to put Mandrake 8.0 on my son's computer. He has a
> 4 gig master hdd as C: over half full and a 10 gig slave as D: with about 4
> used up. I thought I could put it on hdb but the installer says that it
> can not resize that partition (no other error given). (It says it can
> resize hda, but there isn't enough room left on it.) I've run windows
> defrag on it a couple of times to no avail. He's using an asus CUBX mobo
> with 440bx chipset and a celeron cpu with 256mb ram. His hdds are a
> samsung (4 gig) and the 10 gig is a maxtor. Both IDE. If it would help, I
> might be able to get specific model numbers.
>
> Any suggestions how I might get Mandrake installed on hdb?
>
> TIA,
> -s
The first thing I would like to know is, what version of windows is running
on this particular machine? Second, what kinds of partitions are on these
drives (FAT, FAT32, NTFS)?
