Re: resizing partition with Windows Vista
On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 18:04:10 -0400,
lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) wrote:
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> 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).
That is the problem, the boot partition is the largest (137 out of the 160
Gb total), and can only be reduced to about 80 Gb!! The Vista system is
"optimized" to make efficient use of the hard drive by creating 4
partitions with several unmovable parts, so that no matter how large your
hard drive is, you can only reduce the partition used by Vista to about 3
x the space required. You never know how far M$ will go to make it easy
for users to use their hardware...
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Seb
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