I was buying some Dell Latitude laptops for my company today, and I noticed a relatively new option in their system configuration page:
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For $10 Dell will now partition your hard drive for you! Resizing a “live” windows partition can be tricky, so that $10 may save you all the time it would take to reformat the drive, and reinstall windows. The options they give you are relatively reasonable too. I see this as a nod towards all us dual boot enthusiast.
I have no clue how long they have been offering this option – I have not bought from them in several months. It seems to be a relatively recent feature though. It’s nice to see that Dell is becoming more and more Linux friendly as the time passes by…
[tags]dell, partition, dual boot, partitioning, linux, windows[/tags]
I can’t see why resizing a windows partition would be tricky?
(Unless when you do it under Windows, maybe)
I did a lot of win partition resizing with partition magic, and it never failed.
It never really failed for me either, but part of the issue is finding the right 3rd party tool. I don’t think that Partition Magic is free, and not everyone is willing to pay or get cracked version.
Not all fee partition managers will do it. Last time I was doing it I went through 3 live distros before I found one that included an up to date build of qtparted. The one included in Knoppix at the time did not work for me. But that was several knoppix releases back, so there is probably a good chance that the version they include now will work just fine…
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