Re: [newbie] Hard disk repartitioning-II

2003-04-05 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 21:08, Stephen Kuhn wrote: snip setup a special partition for that. You can always backup your /home partition to the Windows partition if any trouble comes. snip Excellent idea - I'll try that when I set about installing 9.1 - it sounds as though quite a lot of people

Re: [newbie] Hard disk repartitioning

2003-04-04 Thread John Richard Smith
Guy Rouillier wrote: John Richard Smith wrote: Well I have plenty of ntfs partitions after the linux partitions and neither W98 nor W2K have any trouble recognising them. Maybe you cannot have a windblows OS after a linux partition, never tried that one but I would expect it to work. John

[newbie] Hard disk repartitioning-II

2003-04-04 Thread Arthur Kng
Hey all, First up, thank you everyone for your prompt help. you've really made it easier for me. reading all your posts i've come up with a plan which goes like this: ( just to remind you, i have a 20GB disk, C drive:5GB having WinME(FAT32), D drive: 15GB having all my data(FAT32), 128MB

Re: [newbie] Hard disk repartitioning-II

2003-04-04 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 04 Apr 2003 3:45 pm, Arthur Kng wrote: Hey all, First up, thank you everyone for your prompt help. you've really made it easier for me. reading all your posts i've come up with a plan which goes like this: ( just to remind you, i have a 20GB disk, C drive:5GB having

Re: [newbie] Hard disk repartitioning-II

2003-04-04 Thread Netsonic
- Original Message - From: Arthur Kng [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 3:45 PM Subject: [newbie] Hard disk repartitioning-II Hey all, First up, thank you everyone for your prompt help. you've really made it easier for me. reading all your

Re: [newbie] Hard disk repartitioning

2003-04-04 Thread Richard Urwin
On Friday 04 Apr 2003 8:35 am, stormjumper wrote: sorry, somewhat off topic, but how did you get your win98 to see the ntfs partitions? www.sysinternals.com have NTFS drivers for Win9x and even DOS. It'll cost $299 for read/write, but read only is free. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your

Re: [newbie] Hard disk repartitioning-II

2003-04-04 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 04 Apr 2003 8:08 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 00:47, Arthur Kng wrote: Hey all, First up, thank you everyone for your prompt help. you've really made it easier for me. reading all your posts i've come up with a plan which goes like this: ( just to

Re: [newbie] Hard disk repartitioning-II

2003-04-04 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 00:47, Arthur Kng wrote: Hey all, First up, thank you everyone for your prompt help. you've really made it easier for me. reading all your posts i've come up with a plan which goes like this: ( just to remind you, i have a 20GB disk, C drive:5GB having

[newbie] Hard disk repartitioning-II

2003-04-04 Thread Arthur Kng
Hey all, First up, thank you everyone for your prompt help. you've really made it easier for me. reading all your posts i've come up with a plan which goes like this: ( just to remind you, i have a 20GB disk, C drive:5GB having WinME(FAT32), D drive: 15GB having all my data(FAT32), 128MB

Re: [newbie] Hard disk repartitioning

2003-04-04 Thread stormjumper
: Re: [newbie] Hard disk repartitioning On Friday 04 Apr 2003 8:35 am, stormjumper wrote: sorry, somewhat off topic, but how did you get your win98 to see the ntfs partitions? www.sysinternals.com have NTFS drivers for Win9x and even DOS. It'll cost $299 for read/write, but read only is free

Re: [newbie] Hard disk repartitioning

2003-04-04 Thread Guy Rouillier
stormjumper wrote: thanks. i'll look into it. to be honest, i was just curious as a seem to recall my win98 not being able to see the ntfs partitions on the same drive used by win2k. Natively, it can't see NTFS partitions on any drive - Win9x only knows about FAT and FAT32. Want to buy your

Re: [newbie] Hard disk repartitioning

2003-04-03 Thread John Richard Smith
Derek Jennings wrote: On Thursday 03 Apr 2003 4:42 am, M X wrote: Windows will stop looking for usable partitions as soon as it sees the first non Windows partition. So if you want your 4)Partition for data accesible from Windows and Linux(FAT32) partition to be visible from

Re: [newbie] Hard disk repartitioning

2003-04-03 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 03 Apr 2003 10:58 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Derek Jennings wrote: On Thursday 03 Apr 2003 4:42 am, M X wrote: Windows will stop looking for usable partitions as soon as it sees the first non Windows partition. So if you want your 4)Partition for data accesible from

Re: [newbie] Hard disk repartitioning

2003-04-03 Thread John Richard Smith
Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 03 Apr 2003 10:58 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Derek Jennings wrote: On Thursday 03 Apr 2003 4:42 am, M X wrote: Windows will stop looking for usable partitions as soon as it sees the first non Windows partition. So if you want your 4)Partition

Re: [newbie] Hard disk repartitioning

2003-04-03 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Thu, 03 Apr 2003 13:58:21 +0100 John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well I have plenty of ntfs partitions after the linux partitions and neither W98 nor W2K have any trouble recognising them. Maybe you cannot have a windblows OS after a linux partition, never tried that one but I

Re: [newbie] Hard disk repartitioning

2003-04-03 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday April 3 2003 03:58 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Derek Jennings wrote: Windows will stop looking for usable partitions as soon as it sees the first non Windows partition I've seen this suggested before, I want to just corrct that, Windows will perfectly well see any partition

Re: [newbie] Hard disk repartitioning

2003-04-03 Thread John Richard Smith
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Thursday April 3 2003 03:58 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Derek Jennings wrote: Windows will stop looking for usable partitions as soon as it sees the first non Windows partition I've seen this suggested before, I want to just corrct that, Windows will

Re: [newbie] Hard disk repartitioning

2003-04-03 Thread Guy Rouillier
John Richard Smith wrote: Well I have plenty of ntfs partitions after the linux partitions and neither W98 nor W2K have any trouble recognising them. Maybe you cannot have a windblows OS after a linux partition, never tried that one but I would expect it to work. John Win98 won't recognize any

[newbie] Hard disk repartitioning

2003-04-02 Thread M X
Dear all, I have a 20GB hard disk with a 5GB primary partition(C drive, DOS partition) and 15GB logical partition(D drive, extended DOS partition). The C drive has WinME and all application softwares and has 3.74 GB of free space. The D drive has all my data and has 9.84 GB of free space. I want