Re: [gentoo-amd64] Resizing Vista

[Zac]

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