Partition setup w/Vista64b

Geff Lampshire glampshir at verizon.net
Mon Apr 13 01:32:44 UTC 2009


I've got a work-around going; use the manual partition; reduce the Vista 
(NTFS) fromn 320G in steps to 100G, then step to 50G then to 33G.  Then 
partition as desired. don't know if the thing will boot when I'm done - 
it's still installing.

--Geff

wirechief wrote:
> i used the resizing tool in Vista to get the partitions i wanted.
> becarefull, you could end up with
> vista not booting.
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> On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 8:55 PM, Geff Lampshire <glampshir at verizon.net> wrote:
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>> 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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