Re: resizing partition with Windows Vista
On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 12:48:37PM -0500, Seb wrote:
> This is unbelievable. The Toshiba laptop I mentioned in my previous post
> came with Windows Vista in it. It has a nifty utility to "shrink" or
> "expand" a partition. Well, Vista created 4 partitions, scattered all
> over the hard drive, and "shrinking" the partition doesn't let you use all
> the free space available. Googling for a solution, the only one seems to
> be to buy a partitioning proprietary software that knows how to resize
> NTFS partitions with Vista on it. Has anybody been successful resizing
> such a partition to create space for a dual boot system? This is
> surreal. Thanks.
Some people use gparted from a livecd. Do NOT resize or move the
windows boot partition however, unless you have a real vista CD around
to boot to recovery mode and repair the boot files for vista. It will
not boot if you change the boot partition in anyway (other than using
the vista resize tool).
4 partitions seems pretty silly too. I have seen 2 or 3 (one recovery,
one system/boot, and one data).
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Len Sorensen
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