Installing FC5 onto existing XP Disk

[wwp]

Hello Nigel,


On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 15:55:37 +0200 nigel henry <cave.dnb at tiscali.fr> wrote:

> On Tuesday 20 June 2006 14:46, wwp wrote:
> > Hello Laurence,
> >
> > On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 12:20:09 +0100 Laurence Orchard 
> <laurence at orchards.org.uk> wrote:
> > > Hi All
> > >
> > > I would like to install FC5 onto my Athlon64 m/c, I came with Windows XP
> > > Home installed using the whole 250Mb disk as one partition.
> > >
> > > Is there some easy! way to install FC5 without going through the remove,
> > > re-partition, re-install XP, Install FC5 route?
> > >
> > > On previous machines I have used Partition Magic to resize partitions,
> > > is there something that will do the same for NTFS?
> >
> > It was the same here, I used Partition Magic to stretch down the NTFS
> > chunk, then installed FC5 from DVD, w/ grub in master boot record (no
> > problem w/ dual boot).
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> 
> Do you need to defrag the disc before resizing the NTFS partition?

Try. IIRC, P-Magic is smart enough to tell you how much you can stretch down
w/o having to defrag. You could also defrag directly before asking, as it's
not a bad idea if your disk is entropy :-).


Regards,

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wwp
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