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That's a good idea, I'll try it. I'm not a Windows fan myself, but at least |
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Vista looks cool. |
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On 4/10/07, Joe Menola <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 problem |
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> is |
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> > that for some reason neither my Gparted Live cd nor my gentoo live cd |
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> 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 |
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> partition |
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> > scheme as before anyway. I've tried using the Vista disk partition |
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> 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 and |
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> 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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