On Sunday 28 June 2009 14:50:27 Rob Owens wrote: > On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 07:08:20AM -0500, Neal Hogan wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 3:13 AM, Thierry Chatelet<tchate...@free.fr> wrote: > > > On Sunday 28 June 2009 09:50:52 John L Fjellstad wrote: > > >> Zachary Uram <net...@gmail.com> writes: > > >> > Hi, > > >> > > > >> > I have a 500GB disk which has Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium > > >> > (64bit) installed on it. Not sure if that is 1 huge partition or > > >> > not. I assume it is NTFS. Can someone please tell me exactly what I > > >> > must do to shrink the Vista install by 50% and install Debian > > >> > squeeze (64bit AMD) on the 250GB partition that will be freed. > > >> > > >> I used to use PartitionMagic to shrink Windows partitions. Not sure > > >> if it still works with Vista, but I would think the newest version has > > >> support for it. A free vesion is gparted, but I have never used this. > > >> > > >> -- > > >> John L. Fjellstad > > >> web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes > > > > > > Live gparted cd works fine. > > > > +1 (http://gparted.sourceforge.net/) > > > > Also, if I remember correctly, my MS partition had to be defrag'd. I > > used a third party program (don't recall which one) because it was my > > understanding that the one that comes with MS will not do in such a > > way that is conducive to sharing. >
I have shrink vista partition on 4 laptop lately, using gparted with no problem. Did not even defrag before hand( Maybe not the best practice). Vista, when restarting had to check its partition to re-index all its file (I believe???), took a long time, but it restarted after that. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
