Bringing Windows XP partion into FC6

[The-Eagle-Eye]

Hello mates!

Senario:
I have dual boot OS on my system i.e., Windows XP Prof. and FC6.
I have installed VMware Server on linux.
I have 48GB space in Windows XP 24GB each for C and D Drive (FAT32 format), and nearly 25 GB on Linux.
5GB of free space left on linux and i want to install Windows XP Prof. inside linux using VMware Server and later to remove Windows as dual boot.
Due to less space.. i am not able to do it.
I want my windows D Drive partition into the linux such that my linux space raise to nearly 49GB and windows be 24GB.
So that i can increase virtual memory for VMware to be 20GB from currently 5GB.

Help needed:
1) How to bring that partition into the linux without loosing linux data? [Need solution and all commands (guide) as i am new to linux.]
Note: Nothing is there in D Drive of windows.. so no issues of loosing data there.

2) If '1)' is over... then i want windows to be deleted and to bring remaining 24GB of windows space to be inside linux, and make as a single boot OS. So that to use windows ..from linux using VMware i can use it.

Please Help me out.
Thanx in advance.

[glennzo]

Look into GParted. That program *should* be able to delete your Windows 'D' partition and add it to your Linux partition by 'resizing' the Linux partition using the free space left after deletion of the afore mentioned Windows 'D' partition.

Summary:
Install gparted by typing yum install gparted
Using GParted
Delete 'D' partition
Grow Linux partition using newly created free space.

[Dies]

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/

I would download the Live CD from that page then boot from it, delete the FAT partition then move the Linux partition over and grow it to fill the drive.

That's what I would do since I've played around with Gparted quite a bit and never had a problem, but YMMV so if you should happen to toast your install don't blame me.

BTW you will probably need to edit grub.conf before rebooting and change the partition info to match your new setup, you should be able to do that from the Gparted Live CD.


@ glennzo

Sorry, I guess we were thinking the same thing.