Time for Plan B (or maybe Plan 9 "Grave robbers from outer space").

I currently have Rachel (the old Piii933) and Royston (the Athlon 2000 that Royston gave me) up and on the network.

I may or may not put Dominic (the very old W95 P233) on just for fun, maybe even as a non-office machine on one of those mains network things upstairs so my lodger can surf if he wants to - perhps with a version of Word Pro on it in case he wants towrite letters.

Now that leaves RIchard - the Athlon 2400 with the cattle trucked mitherboard. Motherbaord on order. Gettng a socket A board with integrated graphis but overclockable toook a bit of hunting....

AANyway, I have this hge 160G hard drive - BUT it has data on.

I need something like Partition Magic or Partition manager that I can use to create two little partitions near the beginning of the drive (puttint eh partition withteh dat near the end) so taht I can then put something (maybe XP, spit spit) in one partition and Linux in the other. I'llbe back wehn I need to pickbrains about multiboot systems, but right now the hunt is on for FREE software that I can use WITHOUT LOSING MY DATA (and I haven't got any other working drives big enough to write 60G to) to create those couple of partitions aat the front of that drive. THey need to be at the front because bootable partitions seed tobe near the front.


Any suggestions? (I could go and buy anther hard drive, and copy the stuff I need to save through my 30G Freecom a bit at a time, but that takes the fun out of it.....)