Yeah, I tried that but it only got me 587mb. Like Vista is taking up a 105 gig partition... I think what's happening is that there are files at the end of the partition as well as the front. Don't know.
-Peter On 4/11/07, Fred <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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 > -- > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> mailing list > > You can resize partitions and volumes within Vista itself using the 'Disk Management' console program. -- [email protected] mailing list
