Re: [gentoo-amd64] Resizing Vista

["Peter Davoust" <worldgnat@gmail.com>]

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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 <spdrmonkey@gmail.com> 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 <worldgnat@gmail.com> 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 <gentoo@fred35.plus.com> 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* < menola@sbcglobal.net
> > > > <mailto: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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> > list
> > > >
> > > >
> > > You can resize partitions and volumes within Vista itself using the
> > > 'Disk Management' console program.
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> >
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