remove linux, and then install Windows XP

Jerry Feldman gaf at blu.org
Wed Apr 26 17:13:00 EDT 2006


On Wednesday 26 April 2006 4:32 pm, John Abreau wrote:
> Jerry Feldman wrote:
> >> 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.
>
> When is the best time to run this? I tried this a couple months back on
> a brand new laptop, figuring it would be best to resize the partitions
> before even booting Windows for the first time, but when I did, Windows
> thought it still had the whole drive, and I ended up having to reinstall
> Windows.
>
> Would it work better if I let XP configure itself first, then defrag,
> then resize?
Windows likes to own the world. It would be my advice to install Windows, 
defrag, then resize and install Linux. I've never installed Windows on a 
system where Linux was already installed on the same drive. 
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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
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