On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 10:46:27PM +0200, Nigel Henry wrote:
Many thanks to Charles Curley for the links.
You are most welcome; that's what it's there for.
The link
to.http://gparted.sourceforge.net/ solved the problem. I
downloaded the gparted live cd, version-0.2.5.5.iso.
Thanks for the referral to the live CD; I wasn't aware of it. I've
added a link to it with a credit to you.
XP for the the first time that I know runs CHKDSK (probably annoyed
that it's file sysem has been messed with), then having accepted
that it's ok, reboots, in the usual Windows style.
parted forces the check, so that's normal.
Well, all I can say is that Gparted has done the job. XP is now showing that
it's using 11.72GB of the 40GB drive, and all the rest is free space, and
certainly enough for a couple of Linux distro's.
Glad to hear it.
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