i need help, recently my hdd broke, and to make things worse, windows could not read it in another computer. However Linux can read some of the data (not all since the hdd is broken).

Now the problem is that windows is taking all the hdd, so i need to do the following:

shorten windows partition for about 5 GB
write FAT partition to those extra gained.
run windows and copy files into hdd
run knoppix and remove the FAT partition and make windows partition bigger.

Please let me know if this is possible, and what application is best for the job in knoppix.


Thanks in advance

Parted, Qtparted will resize partitions. I think Knoppix has it and also
http://www.sysresccd.org/

The partition will have to be unmounted to resize it. NTFS partitions can be resized with qtparted. I'm not sure about FAT.

"shorten windows partition for about 5 GB
write FAT partition to those extra gained.
run windows and copy files into hdd
run knoppix and remove the FAT partition and make windows partition bigger."

Sorry that doesn't make a bit of sense to me.

If hdd is failing replace it and salvage what you can get off of the old drive. Put the new drive at hdc and copy the files that you can get over to hdc. The best defence against a hard drive crash is to have files backed up somewhere.

Good luck

Sorry, i did a mistake there.

The hdd failed i think, it wont boot and windows cant read from it, however if i boot on Knoppix i can still read some data, althought not everything.

What i mean is:
[list=1][*]Hdd on computer1 fails[*]take hdd from computer1 and put in computer2[*]boot in knoppix on computer2[*]shorten the ntfs partition (because it is taking all the space in computer2)[*]Write a FAT partition from those extra gained while shortening the ntfs partition on computer 2[*]boot on windows and move files from the newly created FAT partition into computer2 (on the ntfs partition)[*]boot on knoppix again and remove the FAT partition and make ntfs on computer2 bigger[*]Format hdd from computer1[*]see if hdd from computer1 is still functionable[*]if not, buy a hdd[/list=1]