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Canuck

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« on: December 03, 2005, 01:04:26 AM »
My 40GB hard messed up on me a few years ago, and I got an 80GB drive.  Since it was under warranty, I was given another one, but it has been sitting in my drawer ever since.

I was thinking of putting linux on it.  Would it be possible to partition the 40GB drive into 2 partitions of roughly 30GB and 10GB, installing Linux on 10, and having the 30 as extra storage?  Should I partition the drive prior to installing Linux or during the linux installation?

Will windows recognize the other 30GBs to allow me to use it as storage?  

Anything else I should consider if I do this?

Thanks
« Last Edit: December 03, 2005, 01:08:48 AM by Canuck »
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« Reply #1 on: December 03, 2005, 01:50:19 AM »
install it then use partition magic to format and partition it. Create a linux partition (ext3 i think) and a NTFS partition. Boot from a nix cd and install it to the 10gig ext swap partition and your golden as xp sees only the 30gig ntfs section.
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« Reply #2 on: December 03, 2005, 08:05:50 PM »
Personally I'd make the 30 gig partition fat32 and put linux on the 10...that lets you read and write to the 30 gig in both windows and linux.
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