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On Tuesday 10 April 2007 4:15:17 pm Peter Davoust wrote: |
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> Ok, so this is sort of a continuation of my previous question about |
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> Xserver, HP decided to replace my laptop after a little technical support |
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> issue, and now my PC has Vista on a 120 gig hard drive. The only problem is |
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> that for some reason neither my Gparted Live cd nor my gentoo live cd can |
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> resize the partition. I'd reinstall everything, but Compaq doesn't like |
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> providing OS restore disks, and instead put all the data on a separate |
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> partition. Most likely the restore disk will just setup the same partition |
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> scheme as before anyway. I've tried using the Vista disk partition utility, |
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> but it could only give me 587 mb in between the restore and OS partitions. |
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> It's annoying, does anyone know how to fix it? I've tried chkdsk and defrag |
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> already, but to no avail. |
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The first thing I'd try is zipping the contents of c:\ drive>dvd, recreate |
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your partitions and unzip to the smaller c:\ drive. I know this would work |
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for ntfs. I know nothing about Vista though, and I'm fine with that. ;) |
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-jm |
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