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Repartition Windows Dual Boot

Jan 6, 2011 2:29AM PST

I am running a Windows dual boot with XP and Ubuntu.The Boot sequence I believe is run by Grub in that UBUNTU has priority over XP when loading.My problem is that I want to increase the partition size of Windows and reduce Ubuntu. When I open partition magic it shows the allocation for both systems with Windows being NTFS. I cannot fathom how to increase Windows and reduce UBUNTU.

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That's too much work.
Jan 6, 2011 9:39AM PST

Personally I would get an external harddrive instead. Technically here is how it's done (but no garanttee though). You reduce the linux partition size and create some free space then you add this free space to the Windows partition. But this sound a lots simpler than reality; and that is why I said an external drive might be a better way to go. Good luck.

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That's too much work
Jan 6, 2011 5:06PM PST

I am tending to agree with you - thanks for your advice.

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After you backup.
Jan 6, 2011 9:55AM PST

I have to ask why you don't use the same tool UBUNTU used to resize the drive. (GPARTED)

Also, since you paid for Partition Magic, don't they document or support you?
Bob

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resizing partitions with gparted
Feb 6, 2011 8:40AM PST

I have used gparted (off the ubuntu CD) to resize NTFS and EXT-4 partitions on the same drive. I made the EXT-4 partition larger. I've done this only once - first, I did full backups of the partitions to my external drive. It worked OK, but I don't trust it yet without first saving the partition data elsewhere.