Partition setup w/Vista64b

[wirechief]

i used the resizing tool in Vista to get the partitions i wanted.
becarefull, you could end up with
vista not booting.

On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 8:55 PM, Geff Lampshire <glampshir at verizon.net> wrote:
> I'm trying to setup a dual boot Vista/Ubuntu laptop.  All goes well with
> the partition tool, except it craps out when I tell to re-partition the
> disk.  The tool sees the partitions on the disk, and the default
> repartition (shrink) of the Vista partion is what I want; about 12% of
> the 340G disk - and Ubuntu on the 300G partition.
>
> I tell it to shrink the Vista (NTFS) partition, it starts and then
> stops, asks me to partition the entire 340G disk for a single partition
> Ubuntu.  It doesn't even see the NTFS partition anymore.  I then reboot
> into Vista, and run chkdsk - now I can attempt to re-install the Ubuntu,
> shrink the NTFS; and repeat?
>
> --Geff
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