losing xp

[Derek Broughton]

Raseel Bhagat wrote:

> Hi ,
> 
> On Dec 26, 2007 10:11 PM, John Toliver <john.toliver at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>
>> jt-Can't you simply use gparted to extend the partition once you nuke XP?
>>
> 
> If XP was the firat partition on your disk, I'm not sure if you can extend
> the partition on your left ?

Ack!  You're right.  Your entire filesystem is rooted at sector 0.  So if
you extended it left, nothing would be where you expected it.
-- 
derek