Then right click the extended partition again, and this time grab at the beginning and shrink the partition all the way to the right. to create free space at the beginning and press Apply.

One of the most confusing and intimidating parts of installing Linux for dual-booting with Windows is the disk partitioning required.

If you already have Windows installed, you can still dual boot Linux, but you'll need to create a new partition on your hard drive.

To create a new partition, specify the size of the partition in the space provided in MB and click Shrink to start the process.

how do i load my win2000 partition into linux and at the same time run win2000? do i need a special program to do this (i.e. samba)? if win2000 was running in linux, can i actually access/open ...

Jack Wallen walks you through the steps of encrypting a single partition on a Linux machine.