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1.10 The MS Windows partition occupies my whole harddrive. Can I shrink/split it without a re-install?Possibly. There is a utility called FIPS.EXE on my RedHat CD that does just that. Check the directory \dosutils\fipsdocs\ on your RedHat CD for documentation. If I were you, I would back-up my essential data before doing anything to my partitions. There are also commercial utilities to change the partition size without destroying its contents.My personal preference is to do a clean re-install of MS Windows on a single, dedicated partition. I leave some space on the hard drive unpartitioned so I can use it later for Linux. My fair division of hard drive space between MS Windows and Linux is 50/50. Linux programs tend to be smaller but they include (as standard) components that MS Windows offers only with many thousand of dollars of add-ons: e.g., servers (not just clients) for telnet, ftp, http, and mail, several databases, programming languages, graphics processing programs ... Next > 1.11 How do I start the installation?
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