[ale] Did I lose my windows partition ?

[Boris Borisov]

When you try to do kind of stuff first thing is to do windows force
defragment of the hard drive. That way all files get pushed at the front of
the drive. Then you using the software to partition the drive. But not
fdisk. Fdisk doesn't know where the last files on the Windows partition
are. Parted or gparted will allow you to resize windows partition to
desired size somewhere after the last files. That way would free
unpartitioned space after /dev/sda1. Then you can do whatever with the free
space.

After reboot windows will detect that sda1 has different size and would
correct file table for the partition sda1.

On Sat, Jan 28, 2023, 15:57 Narahari Lakshminarayana via Ale <ale at ale.org>
wrote:

> Friends:
> Thank you for your time and attention in advance.
>
> I finally found my  Samsung N120  netbook (laptop) that runs Windows XP.
> I want to use this so I will be able to work on my Samsung tablet aka dont
> want to lose the XP on this. (dont know how to do connect to Android tablet
> from Linux)
>
> I wanted to partition the disk to 32GB for Win XP and the remaining 92 GB
> for Linux.  I tried to partition and I'm not sure what is happening here.
>
> fdisk says it has a partition of type NTFS.
> https://imgur.com/RboROyO
>
> parted says it has ext4
> https://imgur.com/0ymhp6o
>
> mount command does not allow me to mount it as NTFS
> https://imgur.com/wxSp5dJ
>
> Does this mean I lost the partition and the XP installation is gone or I
> still have hope ?
>
> Warm Regards
> -Narahari
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