going to dual boot, but want to save a partition

[tonyromen]

ok...here's my situation.

I want to dual boot. My current 60G hard drive has 2 30G partitions. One with all the os stuff, and the other which i saved data to.

Now, I want to break up the first partition into 2 15G partitions so I can install 98 se and 2k pro respectively. But i want to leave the other partition untouched.

Can I do this with Fdisk do this? if so how?

Thanks!

-t

[EvilRick]

You probably won't be able to do it w/ just FDISK. You might try booting w/ the 2K disk, and seeing if it can delete the first 30Gig partition, and then make two 15's.

If not, you'll need some 3rd party stuff like Partition Magic It looks like their site might be down, I coouldn't get to it.

[sechs]

No, because fdisk won't resize the extended partition.

What I'd suggest is use fdisk to destoy the existing partition and create a new 15 gig primary for Win98. Install Win98. When you go to install Win2k, have it create another primary in the remaining 15 gigs to install to. Should work.

[Wizzard~Of~Ozz]

I would recommend partition magic aswell, I've used it a lot in the past with excellent results.

[bill1971]

Are there any good links or tutorials out there on creating a
dual-boot system?

Also, since we're on the subject: If you try to re-partition using
just FDISK, you will lose all your data, since files have been
dropped all over that primary 30GB partition?? Right?

Thanks.

- Bill