partitioning help

fireydeviant · 05-11-2003, 04:18 PM

im running win 2000 on ntfs and need to resize it, partition magic no work. can any help?:hit :throwpc

john80y · 05-11-2003, 08:53 PM

You need partition magic 8 ... One of the new features :

Enlarge NTFS partitions "hot" - No rebooting is required when expanding an NTFS partition, not even the system partition

**DreamCaster** · 05-11-2003, 11:07 PM

John's right about PM-8 fireydeviant

I've used it recently myself on a few win2k work machines to split up the drives. It worked like a charm

fireydeviant · 05-12-2003, 08:21 AM

i've used before but it wont install on server version of win2k

RipperRoo · 05-12-2003, 08:38 AM

looks like your only option if you want to keep the data intact is to put the drive in a machine that isnt running the sever version of 2k and resize it that way.

fireydeviant · 05-12-2003, 07:30 PM

i feel ill just archive files and send to other computer then install linux over windows...

snowgirl · 05-13-2003, 12:53 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by fireydeviant
i feel ill just archive files and send to other computer then install linux over windows...

good idea

You can get Shrike (Red Hat v. 9.0) from http://www.redhat.com

Although I generally encourage the use of Red Hat for beginners and SuSe for advanced users, you can always find the right distro for you by going to www.distrowatch.com (or www.distrotwatch.ca if that's down). I do recommend avoiding Mandrake, it's a load of garbage that people expecting to buy Red Hat accidentally grab because the box is almost identical -- using Mandrake is like stamping "Newbie" on your forehead.

If you're feeling really frisky you can always get Solaris 9.0 for x86 and run UNIX instead of Linux

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05-12-2003, 08:21 AM	#4 (permalink)
fireydeviant inspired to dream Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Raleigh, NC Posts: 341	i've used before but it wont install on server version of win2k

05-12-2003, 07:30 PM	#6 (permalink)
fireydeviant inspired to dream Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Raleigh, NC Posts: 341	i feel ill just archive files and send to other computer then install linux over windows...