Thanks to all for the suggestions.
Call me chicken...but with 665 GB of combined free space
available...and precious little recent *nix exprience...I think 15GB
of unusable HD space scares me less than booting in a different OS
(esp. with the Tony B's commentary on the meritsof of the GUI...)
-This is a new Dell machine that shipped with two internal hard drives
and arrived in a RAID 1 configuration.
-I removed the RAID, some default recovery partitions and associated
drive letters with no issues. Well, *almost* no issues.
On what is now a non-RAID, 500 GB C drive, there are 15 GB
Sure.
Boot from a Linux bootable disk that has GParted or QTParted on it and run
the disk partitioning software. Expand the OS/primary partition to include
the 15 GB unallocated space. Done.
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 7:58 PM, D.L.H. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
-This is a new Dell machine that
http://gparted-livecd.tuxfamily.org/
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 8:53 PM, John DeCarlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sure.
Boot from a Linux bootable disk that has GParted or QTParted on it and run
the disk partitioning software. Expand the OS/primary partition to include
the 15 GB unallocated
Doesn't Vista do disk partitioning operations? Regardless, I wouldn't
wish gparted on my worst enemy until it gets a decent GUI.
http://vistarewired.com/2007/02/16/how-to-resize-a-partition-in-windows-vista/
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 11:32 PM, John DeCarlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
