Re: [TCLUG:4478] Mandrake and Partition Magic

[jpschewe@mtu.net]

On  5 Mar, David Christian wrote:
> I have a friend who wants to install linux on his PC, but he would need to
> be able to repartition his hard drive without deleting data.  He *does*
> have a backup of his data, but he wants to avoid reinstalling Windows if
> at all possible.
> 
You can use FIPS to do this.  Just use defrag to get all of hte data to
the front of the partition.  THen you can make a partition out of hte
free space.  It saves a copy of your partition table so you can restore
it.

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