Elnystrom

no no no no no.....i didn't lose everything, everything is still fine, The software wouldn't resize my partition. I did defrag and all that other business. I need to find something pirated or c r a c k e d......any ideas on where i can get one...( i would pay, but being 15.....IM BROKE!)

i did all of that but the resize failed so im still stuck in a rut. If anyone knows where i can get a "free" (pirated, cracked) edition of partition magic i would love to know what it is and where to get it. I am still very much broke. I dont want to buy a new hard drive and even if i did, i couldn't

I have a really good feeling about the system rescue ISO thats linked there, thank you. I will see if it works! -Erik

therein lies the other problem, i could care less about my documents as i could retrieve them from my teachers to copy and all that jazz. I really care about my 7. Something GB Music collecction. Isn't there a way to make windows take up less space without losing everything? Resizing the partition? there has to be something that doesn't require me to spend more than i have (which is about 5 cents or maybe a few bucks) to fix this, I know for a fact i am not using all of the 119.9 that it says windows is using.

Ok, heres the deal. I am running a Dell Dimension 4550 with windows XP pro. Im trying to install UBUNTU Linux as a dual boot. Im hoping there is a way to install it without deleting everything on the windows partition. When i get to the partition manager it shows 3 partitions. The second of which is the windows partition which takes up 119.9 of my 120 GB Hard Drive. IM LOST....help!!!! Im paranoid about losing everything on my disk but I want to run linux on the same box. I have Ubuntu running on an old computer, but its useless because it has no ethernet port and i'm broke, as most teenagers are.