remove linux, and then install Windows XP

[Jerry Feldman]

On Wednesday 26 April 2006 11:17 am, Mark Komarinski wrote:
> I'll go slightly off-topic, if at least tangential.
>
> Every now and then I have a user that has WinXP installed or
> pre-installed and wants to have Linux on the system as well.  Some
> distros allow you to resize NTFS partitions during the install process,
> but FC* doesn't, which gets me peeved.  The later Knoppix CDs don't work
> well resizing NTFS either.
>
> But there's another way.  The gparted gang have a 27MB live CD that will
> resize NTFS partitions for you very nicely.  The only thing you need to
> do is make sure that your NTFS filesystem is consistent (i.e. make sure
> that you shutdown XP cleanly).
>
> http://gparted.sourceforge.net/
qtparted on the Knoppix disk will do this. It uses the GNU parted libraries. 
I've done this a number of times. Note that the NTFS partition also should 
have been previously defragged.
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