Hi, I'm searching for methods of repartitioning a HD without having another one or a secondary working partition/OS, and without losing data. I need to resize my Linux partition so I can set up a dual-boot system. I mean, I'm kinda new in this OS and I never did this before, on Windows I would use Partition Magic. First off, I downloaded parted, but soon it turned out useless for some reasons. Then I found on freshmeat.net a System Utilities CD, but my dad took my external CDRW away. So I came to the forum, wondering if anyone would help me. I was thinking of maybe creating a initrd with the tools or something like that but any suggestion is welcome, thank you. And sorry about my crappy English, but it isn't my native language.

Firstly I think your probably out of luck. You can use paritition magic with 2 floppies you just boot off, although I am not sure wether you can resize your partitions without loosing data (I wouldn´t guarantee it) it also might depend what file system your using.

Once you do have more partitions/another hdd this program rocks for making images of partitions that are really easy to make and restore... I used to use it after making a fresh linux install and instead of having to install/configure all the basic stuff from scratch (as I was always screwing it up) I just restored the partition image which I had saved on another partition

Goo luck!

Take a look at the ntfsresize FAQ. It lists a number of floppy-based rescue distros that should allow you to resize your partition.

Dennisk

When I have data I just move it all to the home directory.

Then boot the Slackware disk after you've installed Windows and make it a FAT32. Use the commandline to copy all your data over, then format the rest of the disk and re-install Slack.

I recently used the latest version of Partition Magic for this (8.01) and didn't have any problems. Ran PM from a floppy boot.