[Nottingham] Mandrake 10, xp dual boot, designing an installation....

Simon Osborne flibblesan at coconutsmusume.co.uk
Fri Jul 23 17:57:49 BST 2004


David Aldred wrote:

> Just to save me all the hassle of getting it and trying it, anyone know 
> if Partition Magic will shift data in a Windows partition out of its way 
> in order to create a new partition?

No. It needs to be defragged and all data being moved, else Partition 
Magic will only be able to resize past the last bit of data.

Best solution I tried was to copy all data to another drive or partition 
and format the partition again. Not ideal in any circumstance.

Simon



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