When trying to resize partition (xp) can't make enough space

[wardc1]

Hi. I have win xp on my main drive and want to take my 40 Gig drive, resize it to allow for 15 gig to be used for mandrake linux. When I try to resize it says I have 29 Gig free but when I move the slider (in the mandrake install program) it will only allow me to free up 5 Gig! I have no idea why.

Suggestions??

thanks in advance.


Ward

[Chris H]

Methinks that the XP install is not contigious, ie there's probably some at the end of the disk. I had a 40Gb which would only resize to give me 4Gb.

Removed XP.

You could try defrag first.

[wardc1]

I will try the defrag first.... before I remove xp.. I have to keep xp for work related stuff (sadly)

Ward

[jeremy1701]

I had the same problem.

If you use a third party partition software like Partition Magic, it will work. If you don't have PM, don't fret... You can use qdparted (sp?) that comes with Knoppix.

As a last resort, you could use fdisk
Jeremy

[wardc1]

I do have an older copy of PM... will try that after defrag... then try to find a copy of the program you suggest.

thanks!!

ward