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You can use a program like Partition Magic 7.0 to resize the fat 32 partition, and then on the free space you created install Linux.
This way you will not loose data.
Hope this helps
most computers you buy these days do not come with a windows disk only a restore disk. the restore disk should restore the system. The question is will it use the first partition available or will it repartition the disk.
See if there is some documentation on the disk. You might just want to try it and see. Create a partition for Windows and try to install it, see if it uses the whole disk.
if you don't have a restore disk then you will need to buy windows. If you do and it recreates the partitions using the entire disk then you could resize the partition with partition magic.
You could also use fips if you make the partition fat32
Your restore disk will probably blow away any partitions you make and recreate its own partitions before installing the OS image. Your best bet is to get Partition Magic and resize them your self. Look on your CD and see if the i386 directory is on there. If it is let me know and I will walk you through an install from that.
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