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 1Hbd8O-00047f-EZ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 11 Apr 2007 13:45:17 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l3BDgx53014424; Wed, 11 Apr 2007 13:42:59 GMT Received: from an-out-0708.google.com (an-out-0708.google.com [209.85.132.242]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l3BDguqa014358 for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2007 13:42:57 GMT Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id b8so191796ana for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2007 06:42:56 -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:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Dre97+KM//FKWMdxogU5opi2SEWZsnm7EUHitf3Joh5BD/qJzR6ehFcGvZ0HICs4V+ZMmEYbz7WEixTM1i48IEKlOcGwWnccCExRMd6bgAqPfp5KuwgMhETU0JqHvPW0Y9wVU7UMmalrFU1OUMxIWa86abrZWskBTDWIuvZrIAI= 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:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Ny0DKXSPhDKSRA5BAPL+8J6j9rw9y+9DX0hAn4X58ToUruMtQB/v8Pdkn/gzgCUABLlvElU7Il7IkoznAsIcigwUj2aXjV9F/5gJJL+yQwAdDCl+m12ofRvDsoH994wcXxOeJzPDSQbTQL3CUEMpFRtCLRnNGVWaP9X8FFaUan8= Received: by 10.100.164.14 with SMTP id m14mr407661ane.1176298975988; Wed, 11 Apr 2007 06:42:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.100.142.11 with HTTP; Wed, 11 Apr 2007 06:42:55 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <9e938faf0704110642g4479e383o22f2896de240fd7a@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 08:42:55 -0500 From: Zac To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Resizing Vista In-Reply-To: <7c08b4dd0704110526p4733f38x2e59203147f2065@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-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <7c08b4dd0704101415u86f7073h60a3fda5f58280b4@mail.gmail.com> <200704101710.56622.menola@sbcglobal.net> <7c08b4dd0704101609u14f6a05co9aa0147c57e60084@mail.gmail.com> <461CE0B7.1070202@fred35.plus.com> <7c08b4dd0704110526p4733f38x2e59203147f2065@mail.gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: e414ddb3-1881-4098-b9d6-c2ccbc8fdfa3 X-Archives-Hash: 1b48be1497707b0412b33afcbed21917 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