slice the windows partition

[kraylus]

i have windows on yet another machine that i would like to put gentoo on, although i need to keep windows on here. the hard drive is kinda fubar'ed and as such the only partition apps that will work on it are linux apps. if i try to run partition magic on it it'll say that the partition something-or-other doesn't match the one specified by the one the BIOS reads. something like that, i dunno.

thus, windows only thinks that there's 4gb on the hard drive when there's actually 7. linux sees all 7.

ANYWAY, i recall a partition app for linux (now that i think of it, i think it was a dos app that came with linux cd's in the dosutils section) that called FIPS or some such that would split a partition in half.

for example: a 2gb partition would be shrunk to one. and the remaining gb would be free space.

anyone recall this? anyone know where i can get it?

ill look around and see about a solution... but if anyone knows of other alternatives, please post! it's imperative that the information on this HD NOT be lost. and there's far to much to back up conventionally.

ryan
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[Guest]

it's for example included in suse linux www.suse.com
their you have to search for the link to the ftp server, should be a directory called dosutils. btw i think you can choose how much to shrink and it mustn't be the half
florax

[kraylus]

well, back when i used it, it was still FIPS 1.0. i found 2.0 straight from the developer.

boot it on a windows boot disk and it worked wonderfully.

thanks

ryan
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