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Peter Davoust wrote: |
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> That's a good idea, I'll try it. I'm not a Windows fan myself, but at |
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> least Vista looks cool. |
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> On 4/10/07, *Joe Menola* < menola@×××××××××.net |
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> <mailto:menola@×××××××××.net>> wrote: |
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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 |
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> support |
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> > issue, and now my PC has Vista on a 120 gig hard drive. The only |
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> problem is |
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> > that for some reason neither my Gparted Live cd nor my gentoo |
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> live cd can |
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> > resize the partition. I'd reinstall everything, but Compaq |
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> doesn't like |
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> > providing OS restore disks, and instead put all the data on a |
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> separate |
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> > partition. Most likely the restore disk will just setup the same |
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> partition |
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> > scheme as before anyway. I've tried using the Vista disk |
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> partition utility, |
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> > but it could only give me 587 mb in between the restore and OS |
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> partitions. |
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> > It's annoying, does anyone know how to fix it? I've tried chkdsk |
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> 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, |
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> recreate |
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> your partitions and unzip to the smaller c:\ drive. I know this |
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> 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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You can resize partitions and volumes within Vista itself using the |
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'Disk Management' console program. |
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