Re: Installing Debian alongside Windows Vista?
On Sunday 28 June 2009 14:50:27 Rob Owens wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 07:08:20AM -0500, Neal Hogan wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 3:13 AM, Thierry Chatelet<tchatelet@free.fr>
wrote:
> > > On Sunday 28 June 2009 09:50:52 John L Fjellstad wrote:
> > >> Zachary Uram <netrek@gmail.com> writes:
> > >> > Hi,
> > >> >
> > >> > I have a 500GB disk which has Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium
> > >> > (64bit) installed on it. Not sure if that is 1 huge partition or
> > >> > not. I assume it is NTFS. Can someone please tell me exactly what I
> > >> > must do to shrink the Vista install by 50% and install Debian
> > >> > squeeze (64bit AMD) on the 250GB partition that will be freed.
> > >>
> > >> I used to use PartitionMagic to shrink Windows partitions. Not sure
> > >> if it still works with Vista, but I would think the newest version has
> > >> support for it. A free vesion is gparted, but I have never used this.
> > >>
> > >> --
> > >> John L. Fjellstad
> > >> web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes
> > >
> > > Live gparted cd works fine.
> >
> > +1 (http://gparted.sourceforge.net/)
> >
> > Also, if I remember correctly, my MS partition had to be defrag'd. I
> > used a third party program (don't recall which one) because it was my
> > understanding that the one that comes with MS will not do in such a
> > way that is conducive to sharing.
>
I have shrink vista partition on 4 laptop lately, using gparted with no
problem. Did not even defrag before hand( Maybe not the best practice). Vista,
when restarting had to check its partition to re-index all its file (I
believe???), took a long time, but it restarted after that.
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