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gigamosh57
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I recently bought a new Western Digital 250GB hard drive (WD2500BEVE) and am trying to dual boot with Windows XP and Edubuntu.
Before installing windows, I partitioned the drive into a 24.4GB and a 208GB partition assuming, wrongly, that Edubuntu's installer would have no problem repartitioning the free space from the 208 GB to make the needed linux partitions. When I tried installing Edubuntu the partitioning software couldn't detect the amount of free space available on the 208 GB (51.9 GB free) and I was wary to ask it to repartition and risk losing all my completely legal and DRM protected music....
Does anyone know of a good, reliable, preferrably free, non-destructive repartitioning program for windows XP that I can use to repartition the drive manually and then have linux go do its thing?
I have heard of Gparted, but does anyone have any experience with this program (some of the people in some of the forums had some issues on some of their uses)?
Partition Magic seems like it would do the trick but I am a good citizen and don't want to have to pirate any software. Software piracy supports terrorism.
Before installing windows, I partitioned the drive into a 24.4GB and a 208GB partition assuming, wrongly, that Edubuntu's installer would have no problem repartitioning the free space from the 208 GB to make the needed linux partitions. When I tried installing Edubuntu the partitioning software couldn't detect the amount of free space available on the 208 GB (51.9 GB free) and I was wary to ask it to repartition and risk losing all my completely legal and DRM protected music....
Does anyone know of a good, reliable, preferrably free, non-destructive repartitioning program for windows XP that I can use to repartition the drive manually and then have linux go do its thing?
I have heard of Gparted, but does anyone have any experience with this program (some of the people in some of the forums had some issues on some of their uses)?
Partition Magic seems like it would do the trick but I am a good citizen and don't want to have to pirate any software. Software piracy supports terrorism.
