Question about partitioning.. Friend has brought his pc to me a few times to install Linux on it with mandrake 8.1 being the most recent. Now his comp has a 20gig and a 600meg drive. The 20gig is master and is broken up into a 4gig partition and the remaining is a windows data drive. I used partition magic 6.0 to resize the roughly 15 gig partition down to something like 8 or 9gig so we will have enough to install Linux. after the resizing is finished we booted into windows to make sure that his data is still there and the old E drive is down to the proper size and it is fine.
Now on to installing Linux. I break the remaining free space using mandrakes partitioner during the install. 3gig or so for /, 256M for swap and remaining for /home. LM81 installs just FINE (solo-1 audio not supported yet not withstanding). Problem is, when he boots windows now his old E drive is GONE. Not there.. All we have is C and D. Since we need the drive for windows (accounting software is there as well as some games Linux does not run yet) I end up having to kill the Linux , make a fat-32 out of the free space and join with the old partition (all this in partition magic) to get his drives back. What are my options to getting his system working. I fear it is because Linux makes that extra space into a primary partition. and that confuses windows to death... Is my only option to resize the C drive to a larger size, kill the "E" partition and install Linux in that remaining extended partition?? Just looking for ideas here. -- I have yet to meet a C compiler that is more friendly and easier to use than eating soup with a knife.
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