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 1HbPWs-0007lI-LB for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 10 Apr 2007 23:13:39 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l3AN9trf000844; Tue, 10 Apr 2007 23:09:55 GMT Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.182]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l3AN9s99000820 for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2007 23:09:55 GMT Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id a29so1511185pyi for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2007 16:09:54 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=tu3UJJlW32yucTbKR/d8KoPZUHNihTI4N1K3ALrGpm7v3iMXNUrBjkoPFAhve6OgLX8HGbOQrNphzhDEix1togZPx4eFnKGFALPVRhzBWe0gN+UPx3hJdOddndWqO2mTyXJMSmBy83gawcfUH6v/saoB7nTxrH4mybjRAxQ5iBk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=ixkxzcfkdD/5BjQ9bRZdavalKOXze+Nv6eUHMyUKSjZfLla9DgTSfuILctZQaCjcMCm8kslHnyKpHLj7qtCuRkFuRXr3LDs34VPelr+cWAroEGWGZH94gyleSX1hdOi6XJZcBWSXcUaLIx9etRZRvpl+tEMSWgK8kSyTeqcNYt4= Received: by 10.65.75.11 with SMTP id c11mr2514174qbl.1176246594349; Tue, 10 Apr 2007 16:09:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.64.125.14 with HTTP; Tue, 10 Apr 2007 16:09:54 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <7c08b4dd0704101609u14f6a05co9aa0147c57e60084@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 19:09:54 -0400 From: "Peter Davoust" To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Resizing Vista In-Reply-To: <200704101710.56622.menola@sbcglobal.net> 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: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_9779_13210948.1176246594282" References: <7c08b4dd0704101415u86f7073h60a3fda5f58280b4@mail.gmail.com> <200704101710.56622.menola@sbcglobal.net> X-Archives-Salt: 0d021c1b-f911-46ae-b123-5ae99ae72c17 X-Archives-Hash: ac5c713be4dedb8a7802dd8f3817f445 ------=_Part_9779_13210948.1176246594282 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline 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 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 > -- > gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list > > ------=_Part_9779_13210948.1176246594282 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline 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 < menola@sbcglobal.net> 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
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