That's what I was considering trying next. Does burning the recovery partition to a DVD via Recovery Manager create a full recovery disk, or does it require the funky 6.38 gig recovery partition?
-Peter On 4/11/07, Zac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have seen this, and I was able to get around it. I have an hp laptop that was only available with vista, and I found that if I had done anything other than boot the vista install, I would only get about 1 g of space shrinking the drive with the vista tool. However, from a fresh install, well, as fresh as you can get with the revert to factory discs they provide these days, I was able to get my vista partition down to 15gigs total. So, if you don't have anything critical installed in vista, you may try reinstalling. Good Luck. -Zac On 4/11/07, Peter Davoust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > > > > > > -- [email protected] mailing list
