I am hoping someone can enlighten(ment) me.

My uncle wants Linux / Windows duel boot.  I took Mandrake 9.1 over and we got 
to the part where we needed to resize his Windows ME partition.  We clicked 
the resize button, and waited, and we got an error saying the partition 
cannot be resized.   So we did some google-ing and found that if there is 
data on clusters on both ends of the drive, this can happen.  This was odd 
because my uncle did a defrag before we started as I suggested.  He did it 
with Norton.  So, we fired of the Windows one that never works unless you 
turn off everything to look at it, and sure enough there was data at the end 
of the drive.  So, we tried the defrag using the Windows default program.  It 
moved all the data off then end with the exception of a few clusters that it 
claims cannot be moved.  We went back to Mandrake install and came across the 
same probelm again.  Any ideas on this one?

If it helps:

WIN98 Fat32 LBA-mapped
Dell Dimension L700CX

BTW, I also did an install for a friend today and resized his drive with NTFS 
/ Windoze XP.  Worked like a charm.  Three cheers for Mandrake.

-- 
Jacob Albretsen
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http://www.knine.net/

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