Partitioning a drive with windows already on it?

[Gregory Nowak]

Ziping your windows folder and then unziping it again would not run. This is because of the system registry, and some other folders/files that are installed outside of c:\windows.

There are a few utilities for partitioning an existing partition, or rather for spliting it.
The first is a speech enabled version of gnu partit which I found confusing.
Another program is fips which runs from DOS mode, and splits a partition into used and free space. It worked for me on a friend's hd very nicely which was 25 gb. 
I also understand that there are some other comercial alternatives, which I will leave to others for explanation.
Greg


On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 07:23:22PM -0500, Dan Murphy wrote:
> Hi listers.
> I hope everyone has a happy and prosperous new year.
> Here's what I wanted to do, but I'm not sure if I can do it.  I have
> another computer running Win98 SE with a 20 GB drive in it.  I am
> currently running Zipspeak on it, but I would like to install a full Linux
> system on it.  My question is, is there a utility out there that will let
> me create a partition or partition from the free space?  I can't really
> blow away the existing W98 partition because whistling up Sighted
> assistance to reinstall Windows isn't really a practical option.  I had
>  thought of zipping my entire Windows folder, but I don't know if it would
> run once restored.
> Has anyone ever done this before, and if there is a way, how could I do
> it?
> thanks.
> 
> 
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