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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 issue, and now my PC has Vista on a 120 gig hard drive. The only |
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> problem is that for some reason neither my Gparted Live cd nor my gentoo |
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> live cd can resize the partition. I'd reinstall everything, but Compaq |
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> doesn't like providing OS restore disks, and instead put all the data on |
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> a separate partition. Most likely the restore disk will just setup the |
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> same partition scheme as before anyway. I've tried using the Vista disk |
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> partition utility, but it could only give me 587 mb in between the |
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> restore and OS partitions. It's annoying, does anyone know how to fix |
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> it? I've tried chkdsk and defrag already, but to no avail. |
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Well, i would try to use ntfsresize by hand. |
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An Alternative could be ntfsclone to backup the big and then restore to |
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a smaller partion. |
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But for some reason, gparted didn't like it. Maybe the recent versions |
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of ntfsprogs are not yet compatible with Vista. Who knows? |
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