need help installing Fedora using partition magic

[Anton Markov]

Simon Tonekham wrote:
> I recently upgraded my hard drive to an 120GB Western Digital Hard Drive 
> and currently I have Windows XP Professional with SP2 Installed on my 
> computer system. I've installed PartitionMagic version 8.05 on my 
> computer today and I wanted to know how I can safely install Fedora on 
> my computer. The reason that I'm asking is that I'm planning to install 
> Fedora Linux on my computer.The specifications goes as follows:

*A warning about Partition Magic:*

Partition Magic has destroyed some of the data on NTFS partitions *two 
out of the three times* I tried to use it to shrink an NTFS partition. 
This was on different systems/hardware too, so it's not a localized bug. 
I don't think there is any tool that will safely shrink/move an NTFS 
partition.

That being said, if your Windows XP is installed on an NTFS partition, I 
would avoid resizing it at all costs. If you do want to resize/move it, 
I suggest a _complete and tested_ backup.

I would recommend doing what others have recommended: installing Linux 
on the other HD or in an unpartitioned (free) area of the drive. Then 
you can create a FAT32 partition to share your data between Linux and 
Windows.

By the way, if you will not be using _both_ hard drives simultaneously 
most of the time (by having WinXP on one and Linux on the other), you 
should put the hard drives on one IDE cable, and the DVD-writer on the 
other for performance reasons.

My $0.02

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