Re: resizing partition with Windows Vista
On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 05:27:20PM -0500, Seb wrote:
> 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...
Well my wife resized the system partition on her vista laptop using
gparted, then booted from a proper vista cd and repaired the boot
sector, and then it was happy. That was about 3 months ago using
whatever version of gparted was current then. Of course her laptop only
included recovery CDs so I had to use one of the RC discs I had laying
around to do the boot sector repair. Pretty idiotic of microsoft to
have a repair utility that the majority of customers don't get because
microsoft doesn't think pre installed machines should get real install
discs.
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Len Sorensen
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