Hi,

Thanks for the reply. I hope Orca works well with parted from the live CD.

I don't have any data at all to worry about on my Ubuntu partitions. 
And, I just got a new secondary internal hard drive that I can use, the 
whole disk, for Ubuntu this time.

thanks again.
~Ann


Luke Yelavich wrote:
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>> Hi folks,
>>
>> I recently tried to install the latest Ubuntu Linux on an external hard 
>> drive. It was kind of a disaster at first, so I ended up putting it on 
>> my internal drive, instead. I have a dual boot system with XP Home also 
>> on that 80 GB drive.
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>> Is there an accessible tool that I can use, with the orca screen reader, 
>> to safely and nondestructively resize my Window partition to get a good 
>> chunk of the space taken by the Ubuntu partition?
>>     
>
> What you will need to do, is use a live CD to completely delete the Ubuntu 
> partitions, and resize the windows partition to the size you want. Once you 
> have done this, you can re-create the Ubuntu partitions and re-install. There 
> is no way to resize the ubuntu partitions from the beginning of the 
> partitions, only the end. So you will have to back up any important data from 
> ubuntu that you need.
>
> I believe the gparted utility on the live CD can help you do the above. I 
> would advise you to make sure you have everything important backed up, in 
> case something happens and you destroy your disk.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Luke
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