Hi,
On Wed, 8 Nov 2006, Andree Leidenfrost wrote:
> Thanks a lot for your response!
Thanks for yours too! :)
> Ok, I've reinstalled and created a 10GB E: drive in Vista after that.
> Surprisingly enough (at least to me), after reducing the size by 1MB
> following your original instructions, Vista does not boot anymore
> either. :-(
Interesting. I guess you've seen no error messages?
We also shouldn't forget that this was an older beta release, so Vista bugs
are expected. It would be nice to reproduce it on the latest Vista too.
Unfortunately nobody could do it so far (that is no feedback).
> As a Debian developer, i.e. looking at things from a distribution angle,
As an all time Linux developer, I'm looking at things from all distributions
angle ;) I wrote ntfsresize for the purpose to be used in the Linux
installers. I never used Windows myself. I do understand your problem ;)
> I am somewhat more concerned: Installing Linux on a PC should be as easy
> as possible. To this date, ntfsresize has done an excellent job in
> resizing an NTFS partition 'on the fly' as part of the Linux
> installation process.
The problem is that Parted still has problems with editing the partition
table. Corruptions still happen __sometimes__ in a way that Windows won't be
able to boot. Not even when it's reinstalled (the Windows install respects
the partition table, so it won't fix it). The Parted code is widely used in
QTParted (unmaintained for years), GParted and several other partitioners.
It keeps corrupting but isn't getting fixed. Very bad.
Another problem is GRUB. It also tends to make Windows unbootable
__sometimes__. GRUB seems to be also unmaintained for quite some time.
So this repartitioning approach doesn't seem to work reliable,
unfortunately.
An alternative could be if users would install Linux straight to NTFS.
Thus the unreliable partitioning (and hopefully the bootloader) could be
eliminated completely. As an extra bonus, users would even have full
read-write access to their Linux data, without any additional setup.
Though this still needs some work on the NTFS side.
> It would be really sad to not have this functionality anymore.
I think this would be the correct way to proceed:
1) reproduce the problem with the latest Vista Beta (afaik, RC2)
2) submit a bug report to Microsoft and ask for answer and
workaround until they fix it
3) if Microsoft ignores or refuses the problem then make it a
legal cases against them as anti-competitive practices.
4) try to find a solution until 3) settles down.
Best regards,
Szaka
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