* Seb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-07-11 17:27:20 -0500]: > > 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...
I had a similar experience with XP. New machine, booted maybe once. Used Gparted to try to shrink it down to 20 Gb. Wouldn't work <yikes!> Turned out to be an unmoveable (swap) partition in the way. Allowed Xp an extra 4 Gb, then no problemo. I haven't booted to Windows since (using Win 2000 in a VM instead); if it weren't a work machine I'd recover the partition. No one in any position of power seems to be wise to these Microsoft ashholes, except maybe in Europe. -- Tux rox! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
