irlandes,

Don't take me too seriously.

I always make a boring subject less boring. I love JL as I was brought here Linux wise. Members are very kind to me and I learn a lot from everybody.

I do tend to write too much by putting forward my own explanation. Some like it and some don't.

One thing I do though I will correct my mistakes and update my threads if I am corrected by others or new information appear.

I am also fond of Mandriva, its predecessor Mandrake and it offshoot PCLinuxOs. I didn't speak against Mandriva at all, just the way users opting for an easy partition-reisizing/installation together could get the finger burnt.

I never expect people to agree with me. Linux is good in that we can achieve the same task by different ways and approaches.

On the subject of moving a bootable partition this is quite common if one wishes to resize a neighbouring partition on the left boundary of a bootable partition and wish it to take up the vacated hard disk space.

The problem does not exist in Linux as all Linux partitions can be freely shifted around. Both Lilo and Grub can be retored easily.

The resizing and moving of Win2k and Xp are not permitted by the OSes and Vista is the first MS system allows itself to be shrunk and expanded at the partition's right boundary. These MS Windows systems have in-built protection systems preventing them from partition size/position changes. Proprietary software that have been developed to do resizing or cloning Windows partitions make millions on the ignorance of MS users.

The current threads and many of my previous threads are meant to show with Linux these operations can be accomplished as simple tasks.