Guys,

I'm looking for the best and safest ways to create partitions on my hard drive.

If you read my past posts I had a couple of disastrous attempts by using firstly partition magic and then paragon partition manager, both of which did unexpected things to my setup causing days of stress & grief, error messages from hell and an even worse GF who couldnt use 'our' laptop! ha ha..

Basically I wanna dual-boot BackTrack. I used a couple of different tutorials and a 60gb test hard drive. One tutorial failed miserably, couldnt get Lilo to work, error messages & so on. The other tutorial worked perfect. I used QTParted off the live disc to make ONE partition (no swaps or anything) and then used the BT2 installer to finish it off. Made a few changes to Lilo and all was set. Beautiful.

Windows was still happy and so was BackTrack. Sweet.

Feeling full of confidence I gave it smash on my main 120gb hard drive. But for some reason QTParted hung really badly, one BSOD later, MS CHKDSK did its magic and I was back to square-1. I later found out QTParted doesnt like bigger hard drives.

So, after a song & dance, I just want to make maybe a 5~8gb partition on my hard drive and then i'll just use the BT2 installer to finish it off and make the changes to Lilo manually.

Any ideas?

surfersaiyan