I know this is really old news but chalk up another save of a choked Windows XP by booting an Ubuntu live disk and moving some files around.
There are two points to this post: the "footprint" of the live disk system and the dreaded NTFS resize question. The computer being rescued is that of a local attorney who gave me the entire "I hate working on computers / this can't be full" diatribe as I tried to see what was going on. He admits that he has done no maintenance; it's a toaster to him. Diagnosis - it's a Gateway (ugh) with 256mb RAM and a 40gb disk. Disk partitioned 6gb vfat, 34gb NTFS; C-drive now full, D-drive almost completely empty. Attorney expected the recurring "drive full" errors to just go away. Ubuntu 9.04 did boot but took quite a while what with there being only 256mb of RAM. Point being that we've come to be spoiled by more recent computers having GBs plural. Could the group suggest a live disk tool to run in more modest circumstances; maybe even CLI only?? I _really_ don't want to reinstall XP if I can help it. The client's email is a particular concern. Given that the incumbent NTFS partition is real big and not being used to any extent, does anybody trust parted to make the NTFS partition smaller? I know that parted can make the vfat partition larger. Hmmmmm, do I back all the files off of the NTFS partition; blow it away and expand the vfat as big as possible? Howard --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
