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   From: Josiah Jenkins    
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   Subject: Re: External HD & partition's - please help   
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   Whilst perusing Usenet on Sat, 03 Mar 2007 15:25:40 -0700, I read   
   these words from ray  :   
      
   >On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 13:21:03 +0000, Neil Hindry wrote:   
   >   
   >> I wonder if you can help me.   
   >> Last week I brought a Maxtor 320GB external HD.  It was already formatted    
   >> for Windows, I know this because when I plugged it in to a USB port Windows    
   >> XP recognised it straight away and I was able to read & write to and from    
   >> it.   
   >>    
   >> What I want to do is partition the Maxtor external HD so I can use 1    
   >> partition for Windows files and another partition for Linux files. I want   
   to    
   >> do this as I can then use it to backup important data files from both OS's.    
   >> For information I am using Windows XP Pro & Ubuntu Linux.   
   >   
   >It was almost certainly formatted FAT32 - which both MS and Linux can   
   >mount, read and write - so what is the problem?   
   >   
   >>    
   >> What I need to know is how I go about doing this?   
   >> Do I need to reduce the size of the partition that already exists on the    
   >> disk (I assume that when the whole HD is used it is still classed as a    
   >> partition)?   
   >   
   >One needs to reduce the partition, creating free space - before one can   
   >create new partitions.   
   >   
   >>    
   >> Do I reduce the partition size in Windows (that is if it needs to be done)?   
   >> Do I create the new partitions in Linux?   
   >   
   >Either way. I would use Gparted from within Linux to resize and   
   >repartition.   
      
   Or download an iso from here and burn it to a CD   
   http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page   
   It's got GParted on it so you're not running with a 'live'   
   system when messing about with partition sizes (safer !)   
      
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