Richard wrote:
> a. Is there any other way to non-destructively resize a NTFS partition
> apart from Mandrake 9.1's install utility?

Commercial tools like Partition Magic and Acronis PartitionExpert.

> b. Any particular gotcha's that people have found with the following
> hardware P4 Titan 667 Motherboard (GA-8ST667 Series with SiS 645DX
> Chipset) with onboard audio (which Win Xp identifies as a Avance AC97
> Audio using IRQ 18),PS/2 style mouse (IRQ12), a GeForce2 MX400 with 64Mb,

You need the proprietary drivers from nVidia if you want 3D accelereration.

> a Kensington
> EtheRx KNE 100TX PCI Fast Ethrenet adapter (21143-PD) IRQ 17, ASUS PCI
> SC875 with IBM 9 GB HDD off it, an American Power Conversion UPS ES 350VA
> USB UPS in a PCI slot

What??? I have an APC BackUPS ES and it definetly doesn't fit in a PCI slot!

> but Win XP gives no further details on whether it
> uses a IRQ or not, Seagate 40 Gb ATA100 (ST340016A) HDD (which WinXp has
> taken as a
> single partition formated as NTFS and I want to change it) Primary Master
> IDE (can/will swap it with a IBM HDD of 14Gb) Primary Slave 20 Gb
> Seagate(ST320423A), Sony CD-ROM CDU5231 and Sony CD-RW CRX210E1, 1 Gb
> memory.

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