From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HbOcv-0004Dm-K6 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 10 Apr 2007 22:15:50 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l3AMAwWg015748; Tue, 10 Apr 2007 22:10:58 GMT Received: from smtp102.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp102.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com [68.142.229.103]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l3AMAvUv015686 for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2007 22:10:58 GMT Received: (qmail 70698 invoked from network); 10 Apr 2007 22:10:57 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=sbcglobal.net; h=Received:X-YMail-OSG:From:To:Subject:Date:User-Agent:References:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Disposition:Message-Id; b=m4QJIpw+Sd0XhPw/iHqqRbuEDupZag6ZRqzufJ2q4ZJ7MhRZ70wwxLOaN7D7hJ+7nAEYmuzz2f0/XJICMDVnpn9PpFemCjUd3Jv00cYKjxruTc+npefYDOsh7I/pRNr1VglHJTE/qOwewdIrQTrnwD3ddNdKmqzHt4Ewa2HP6Tg= ; Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.0.10?) (menola@sbcglobal.net@68.79.28.229 with plain) by smtp102.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 10 Apr 2007 22:10:57 -0000 X-YMail-OSG: O.3rl8oVM1mX4w5acY4QcB82k_cQqsv2Bnx7mrr3lqwc4chG8mDZzbE72d648oyFDWwytdHOCw-- From: Joe Menola To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Resizing Vista Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 17:10:56 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 References: <7c08b4dd0704101415u86f7073h60a3fda5f58280b4@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7c08b4dd0704101415u86f7073h60a3fda5f58280b4@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200704101710.56622.menola@sbcglobal.net> X-Archives-Salt: ef48e757-5e9f-437f-9c07-569b457889cf X-Archives-Hash: b1660e61df018884612b476d15c5f7a2 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 -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list