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Old 06-30-2007, 06:20 PM   #6
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Originally Posted by Gimmpy
I have been thinking of creating a 10 to 15 gig partition on my secondary HDD to load ubuntu on. Problem I have is - that HDD is FAT32 and not NTFS. If I re-configure that drive as NTFS will I loose anything? Another puzzling thing is that HDD should be 100 gig - but, it is only showing that it is 76.3 gig.

Any thoughts about these
First, you should have started a new thread. This has nothing to do with the topic.

As for your first question. I don't know why you want to convert your disk to NTFS to install linux. NTFS support in linux is experimental.

For your seccond question, drive sace is advertised by counting each unit as 1000 of the previous one while your computer counts as 1024 (but if your drive is 100GB it should be 93 GB for real. 76GB is quite small.)
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