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@... 
> <mailto: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
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> 
> 
You can resize partitions and volumes within Vista itself using the 
'Disk Management' console program.
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