Partioning under Windows XP

[mubeensgh]

Hi all

I have a 160 GB HDD by Maxtor and i find it hard to partition it under Windows XP. I tried FDISK with it only recognising 40 GB of it and Partition Magic closes with errors after rebooting. Can anyone help?

Also I would like to dual boot Windows XP with Xandros or Red Hat. Would anyone know whether Xandros can dual boot?

Thanks in advance 🙂

 

[imported_Ned Flanders]

Disk Management?

 

[SleepWalkerX]

Check out this review of the GParted LiveCD. You're able to create and resize ntfs partitions with it. Hasn't failed me yet. 🙂

Make sure to grab the latest version.

Oh and yeah, Xandros is able to dual boot. Xandros seems like one of the best operating systems for a transition from linux to windows, but I believe it costs money. It looks like its worth it, if you're willing to spend money. Red Hat is really only for corporate and enterprise users, but they sponsor a community based distro called Fedora. I heard its quite stable. Haven't personally used it before though. If you're interested in other linux distributions catered to the desktop, take a look at Ubuntu and Suse.

 

[benjamat]

As tp the partition if you have xp with sp1 you simply change the size of the partition when you install windows.
It will come upo with a partition of 137gb, simply delete this partition and choose the full partition from the following menus.

 

[mubeensgh]

Thanks guys

Xandros seems like one of the best operating systems for a transition from linux to windows, but I believe it costs money. It looks like its worth it, if you're willing to spend money

I actuslly got my copy from a british mag called "Linux User" and its review was exacltly as above. So u could imagine my surprise when i saw it in a computer store going for $35 🙂

Anyways. I am only keeping Windows because of its support for games. Is there an emulator or something like that so that games like Morrowind can be played on a linux box?

This is my system:

Intel 845G chipset m/b with integrated sound and graphics(Intel Extreme II)
P4 3.2 Ghz
160Gb Maxtor
1GB RAM (Kingston)
Sony DVD/CD-RW
Asus DVD

haha its your basic pc from Dell

 

[SleepWalkerX]

Take a look at Cedega.