I have an Acer Laptop that came originally with WinXP loaded. Although I hardly ever use it I would like to keep it as a backup for my wifes PC - she is a bit more locked in to M$ as she is an contract Project Manager who frequently deals with companies who are solely M$ based. As its a legal copy (albeit with NO backup CD copy if anything goes wrong) I would like to be sure not to delete it. Some time back I loaded SLED 10 on a trial basis and later installed Suse 10.1 so it now has the 3 OS loaded. I've now decided to move to OpenSuse 10.2 but want to retain the XP partitions and delete all the others and do a fresh install. I could let Suse 10.2 do the repartitioning or I have GParted as a live CD so I could use that. My problem is ensuring that I don't delete the partitions that relate to XP When I look at the partitions using GParted I see: Dev/hda1 fat32 hda4 extended hda5 linux-swap hda6 reiserfs (pretty sure this is SLED10as the Bootloader shows SLED10 as hda6) hda7 linux-swap hda8 ext3 hda9 ext3 hda2 fat32 hda3 fat16 I am assuming that the extended,fat32 & fat16 partitions (hda 1,2 3 &4) are WinXP. If I look on "My Computer" it looks like the hard drive is set up as 2 drives - C & D. Hence my assumption that the 4 partitions relate to WinXP. hda6 is SLED with the remaining partitions 5,7,8,&9 being allocated to either Suse 10.1 or SLED. If this is the case then I assume that I would be safe in deleting all partitions except 1.2. 3 & 4. Am I correct in my assumptions or am I playing with fire deleting these remaining partitions. Can anyone tell me how to be sure that I am not deleting the XP partitions or suggest how I can clean out 10.1 & SLED10 Alan -------------------------------------------------------
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