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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 !)

-- jjj
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