Than hardcore to reduce the section of the screw without data loss?

Question

Disk partition

I have the main OS - winXP, I want to install the second kubuntu. I can’t completely abandon XP, since I’m running one of the projects under .net, and I can’t demolish Windows for the sake of breaking the screw on a new one either, because there are a lot of projects hanging in it, and raising the server with goodies locally again is minus a day ...
Previously, the same thing, only for building open suse 11 it was possible to make the suzey itself.
What is: - I defragment
the 80 gig screw with one partition , check it - everything is OK, though after the check it gives out 8kb in bad clusters - but this glitch has been since the purchase (8 years already), so the screw does not fray. when trying to reduce the screw partition to make room for kubuntu, that the installer, that partition magic gives an error that the screw is indivisible, as it has errors. tell me something.

Answer 1

Try EASEUS Partition Manager. On the screw with bads, there were no problems when splitting, the data remained alive.

Answer 2

If you have an eight-year-old screw, isn't it easier to buy a new one and transfer everything from the old one via dd --if=/dev/sdb --of=/dev/sda
? Then, from scratch on a new screw, create the partitions you need.

Answer 3

Acronis Disk Director has already been used many times to move existing partitions and not lose data, everything always ended successfully, I recommend

Answer 4

To get started - MHDD → scan → [x] Erase Waits. After that - chkdsk C: / F / R / B. This will remove pseudo-bad blocks.
Further, it would not hurt to make an image of the partition with XP, and only after that proceed with partitioning.

Answer 5

programs for backup usually rummage around to restore to smaller screws (acronis knows exactly how). because in any case, you need to make a backup before such an operation, I would take a large screw, backup 80 to it, then format / split as needed, and then restore the backup with Windows to one of the partitions.

Answer 6

Gparted manually

Answer 7

Why share something for the sake of an OS that you will not use all the time? If resources allow, install VirtualBox , create a virtual machine with a disk in the form of an image file and put whatever you want there.

Answer 8

Thanks everyone, thread closed. EASEUS Partition Manager - it helped, now I've set everything up, next weekend I'll go for a new system unit, why bother with trifles.