Peter Davoust wrote:
That's a good idea, I'll try it. I'm not a Windows fan myself, but at
least Vista looks cool.
On 4/10/07, *Joe Menola* < [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
On Tuesday 10 April 2007 4:15:17 pm Peter Davoust wrote:
> Ok, so this is sort of a continuation of my previous question about
> Xserver, HP decided to replace my laptop after a little technical
support
> issue, and now my PC has Vista on a 120 gig hard drive. The only
problem is
> that for some reason neither my Gparted Live cd nor my gentoo
live cd can
> resize the partition. I'd reinstall everything, but Compaq
doesn't like
> providing OS restore disks, and instead put all the data on a
separate
> partition. Most likely the restore disk will just setup the same
partition
> scheme as before anyway. I've tried using the Vista disk
partition utility,
> but it could only give me 587 mb in between the restore and OS
partitions.
> It's annoying, does anyone know how to fix it? I've tried chkdsk
and defrag
> already, but to no avail.
The first thing I'd try is zipping the contents of c:\ drive>dvd,
recreate
your partitions and unzip to the smaller c:\ drive. I know this
would work
for ntfs. I know nothing about Vista though, and I'm fine with that. ;)
-jm
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You can resize partitions and volumes within Vista itself using the
'Disk Management' console program.
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