Formatting and Partitioning

zevans · n00b Joined: 08 Nov 2005 Posts: 4

I know this is really bad, but what is the easiest way to partition and format. At the moment I have two partitions on my 120g harddrive.

C: has 10gig
D: has 120gig

Windows is on C: and I cant just format c: because it says windows is using files on that drive at it cant format it.

Is there anyway I can just wipe them both clean hands down with no interuptions like that.

So I can set up my windows partition of about 5gig, then so I can use the unallocated space for linux.

thanks.

durian · Guru Joined: 16 Jul 2003 Posts: 312 Location: Margretetorp

vinky · Apprentice Joined: 24 Feb 2005 Posts: 214 Location: Sweden

you could get and boot from the knoppix livecd and use parted or qtparted (qt frontend of parted) to do that.they can change the size of a partition, but you might lose information from the partition you are making smaller. are you lucky then all information will be intact and there will be no need to format them

drwook · Veteran Joined: 30 Mar 2005 Posts: 1324 Location: London

Read the handbook and follow that

wiz · Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 4:45 pm Post subject:

just boot up the gentoo livecd and type: