Re: Anybody having trouble formating maxtor 6L200 mo harddrive (sata)

gaiatechnician wrote:
> J.O. Aho wrote:
>> gaiatechnician wrote:
>>> I have a hp pavilion a 1129n with xp and I want to add one or 2 linux
>>> distributions. But every time I get to the resize the ntfs partition I
>>> get an error.
>>
>> What tools are you using?
>>
>> Which distros have you tried out?
>
> I used a kubuntu a64 cd, a suse io.o dvd and Knoppix 4.02 With knoppix,
> i used both the parted tool from the live cd and I tried a hard disk
> install from the cd. Always, if i got that far, there was a failure to
> resize the windows ntfs partition. With mandriva free, i dont think i
> got that far ever. It is really annoying. I never wasted that much time
> just on partitioning before. If I get past the resizing of the windows
> partition, I think it might go ok. It is a fast computer. The live cd's
> are fairly snappy Knoppix, and damn small,and they see the hard drive
> just fine and go on the net fine too. I havnt used windows in a few
> years and dont want to go to the trouble of learning it again.

As far as I know, there aren't any relabel tools for linux to handle resize of
ntfs, better you use partition magic for that, or reslice the hard drive
completely without regrets for data loss.

Even if you will have full ntfs support in some linux distros (read and
write), it still ain't well working, write may cause filesystem corruption.



//Aho
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