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 1Hbkfd-000254-8l for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 11 Apr 2007 21:48:05 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l3BLkFFa003559; Wed, 11 Apr 2007 21:46:15 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 l3BLkDcU003553 for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2007 21:46:14 GMT Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id a29so283529pyi for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2007 14:46:13 -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=LFcVlkr/Rz+uZtgDWZnsKBuzB7UOsGkwh56/JCvz0heBw92jp0jnsPQf+R7EGFoWUcCsKp/gK6Prd+IPmJdusSnpcDoy3hUosY1nP9MWPixWIibPHR8GpxEXIKFu55V516aXMhZQ0Wg2W3vMEw8LL+6d3C5wb0yvhN/PSLxl8YI= 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=FYQx0dZGu1EXgVSbKwZPYr+xPDufTUcwo31hYS8gT1gMhpxrG0C1GtiIK3FBE2u6GlJ52gLUFSrK7VjFUjwiqgMeEzXtcjp2K9v9Dxv9crxHYrmxTxg7X4o7RxmnMB17wmJ4i/YhuyAPxiZLs8kSu7tBr0VP1EcjCyk3bdz+RmI= Received: by 10.65.214.19 with SMTP id r19mr2324201qbq.1176327973374; Wed, 11 Apr 2007 14:46:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.64.125.14 with HTTP; Wed, 11 Apr 2007 14:46:13 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <7c08b4dd0704111446i2ef5f30ep6c2aed22817ed05d@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 17:46:13 -0400 From: "Peter Davoust" To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Resizing Vista In-Reply-To: <9e938faf0704110642g4479e383o22f2896de240fd7a@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: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_4601_28368320.1176327973300" References: <7c08b4dd0704101415u86f7073h60a3fda5f58280b4@mail.gmail.com> <200704101710.56622.menola@sbcglobal.net> <7c08b4dd0704101609u14f6a05co9aa0147c57e60084@mail.gmail.com> <461CE0B7.1070202@fred35.plus.com> <7c08b4dd0704110526p4733f38x2e59203147f2065@mail.gmail.com> <9e938faf0704110642g4479e383o22f2896de240fd7a@mail.gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 176a1e15-761f-4e00-8724-a650b11c3e71 X-Archives-Hash: 57973f0282d6d787b2381f1ed5e007d0 ------=_Part_4601_28368320.1176327973300 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline 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 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 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 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 > > > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > You can resize partitions and volumes within Vista itself using the > > > 'Disk Management' console program. > > > -- > > > gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list > > > > > > > > > > > -- > gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list > > ------=_Part_4601_28368320.1176327973300 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline 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
> > >     --
> > >     gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org <mailto:gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org > mailing
> list
> > >
> > >
> > You can resize partitions and volumes within Vista itself using the
> > 'Disk Management' console program.
> > --
> > gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list
> >
> >
>
>
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