On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 05:27:20PM -0500, Seb wrote: > That is the problem, the boot partition is the largest (137 out of the 160 > Gb total), and can only be reduced to about 80 Gb!! The Vista system is > "optimized" to make efficient use of the hard drive by creating 4 > partitions with several unmovable parts, so that no matter how large your > hard drive is, you can only reduce the partition used by Vista to about 3 > x the space required. You never know how far M$ will go to make it easy > for users to use their hardware...
Well my wife resized the system partition on her vista laptop using gparted, then booted from a proper vista cd and repaired the boot sector, and then it was happy. That was about 3 months ago using whatever version of gparted was current then. Of course her laptop only included recovery CDs so I had to use one of the RC discs I had laying around to do the boot sector repair. Pretty idiotic of microsoft to have a repair utility that the majority of customers don't get because microsoft doesn't think pre installed machines should get real install discs. -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]