HP Laptop (Defeat acknowledged)

[Howard Coles]

On Dec 20, 2007 10:36 AM, Stew Schneider <stew.schneider at gmail.com> wrote:
> Derek Broughton wrote:
> > Martin Walshe wrote:
> >
> >
> >> On Dec 19, 2007 8:50 PM, Stew Schneider <stew.schneider at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>> 1. Where have I gone wrong?
> >>> 2. How should I proceed?
> >>> 3. Will I ever regain the love of little Nell?
> >>>
> >>>
> >> You could try to use a GParted live cd and divide the partition that way (
> >> http://gparted-livecd.tuxfamily.org/).
> >> I believe you can even do it from within vista using its own disk
> >> management applications (i have done this but cannot remember where in
> >> vista it is sorry).
> >>
> >
> > I have read that you _must_ do this within Vista.  iirc, I ended up erasing
> > Vista, shrinking the partition to the size I wanted and reinstalling Vista,
> > as I couldn't get Vista to shrink to any reasonable size (it wanted to use
> > 32GB of an 80GB drive at the minimum, after I'd removed all the software
> > I'd never use and turned off virtual memory).
> >
> >
> >> Once its been partitioned just set ubuntu to use the newly freed space.
> >>
> I gave up on it. The non-profit can use it to...uh....to....read email.
> Or as a backstop for the shooting range. I offered it for sale "Has
> VISTA Business and bullet hole. Unclear which has done the greatest
> damage." Only taker wanted the gun as well, as he was unsure if a single
> bullet hole was sufficient for VISTA.
>
> Thanks for the help. Maybe they'll ask me before buying any more boxes...
>

Nope, I don't think just one bullet hole will do it, unless its in the
Hard drive itself.  Otherwise its infectious nature will demand that
the hard drive be placed in another equally non-functional laptop and
run there.

And I had to do the same thing as Mark (I think it was) wrote above on
my Dell, because Vista does something really stupid to the
partitioning.
The problem is, I don't think HP ships an installable version of
Vista, I think their recovery DVD/CD is strictly a re-imaging type
recovery so that you couldn't define partition sizes, etc.

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Howard Coles Jr.
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