From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 21 03:06:21 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99AB816A407 for ; Tue, 21 Nov 2006 03:06:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jaj13@web.de) Received: from fmmailgate02.web.de (fmmailgate02.web.de [217.72.192.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7268543D49 for ; Tue, 21 Nov 2006 03:06:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jaj13@web.de) Received: from smtp05.web.de (fmsmtp05.dlan.cinetic.de [172.20.4.166]) by fmmailgate02.web.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBC923A9D22A; Tue, 21 Nov 2006 04:06:19 +0100 (CET) Received: from [82.234.154.189] (helo=[82.234.154.189]) by smtp05.web.de with esmtp (WEB.DE 4.107 #114) id 1GmLxj-0000RQ-00; Tue, 21 Nov 2006 04:06:19 +0100 Message-ID: <45626D2B.70805@web.de> Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 04:06:19 +0100 From: Jona Joachim User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (X11/20061113) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: rickie lyman References: <9ec7836e0611201838k3724fa2cub2144a4275530fe0@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <9ec7836e0611201838k3724fa2cub2144a4275530fe0@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: jaj13@web.de X-Sender: jaj13@web.de Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: I don't see anything to answer my q X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 03:06:21 -0000 rickie lyman wrote: > I am a newbee and sometimes Dizzy too. My question is I have a computer > that > has a rather large drive but it is all formated in NTFs and yes it has XP > Pro on it how would I be able to put Free BSD on there without loosing the > files I have with the other operating system?? I told you that I was > confused. Hi and welcome! How much of a newbie are you? Do you know what partitions, BSD slices and disk labels are and how they work? If you don't know what I'm talking about the easiest and safest is to put a new/unused hard drive into your box and install FreeBSD on it. There are proprietary tools like PartitionMagic that allow you to resize NTFS partitions but I don't know how well they work and how safe they are. *Always* create a backup of your data before using tools like this. I'm not aware of any free program that has advanced support for NTFS. Jona