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I Need help partitioning!
If Windows XP currently takes up my entire drive space, do I need to re-install it if I want it smaller, so there is room after it for another partition? What I have tried so far is using Qpart (or whatever the knoppix partition program is called) to 'resize' my C: drive. However, when I try this, it says drive is fragmented, despite the fact that I've defragmented it in windows... I'm stuck, and would really like to create a partition so I can get Knoppix on my system. Thanks for any help
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I think you would have used the defragmenter which comes with Windows .If that is the case then most probably it will not do a complete job at defragmenting .Apart from that I believe that Microsoft write in the middle of the hard drive even though the hard drive is empty.
So the only option I can think of is you might have to buy some other defragmenting tool and try your luck. Alot of defrag utilities are available online.
A free open source defragmenter will be available from http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net
The other option is backup ur data and repartition your hard drive and re-install XP and GNU/Linux.
But in any case Pls make a back up of your data before doing anything.
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