On Tuesday 10 April 2007 4:15:17 pm Peter Davoust wrote: > Ok, so this is sort of a continuation of my previous question about > Xserver, HP decided to replace my laptop after a little technical support > issue, and now my PC has Vista on a 120 gig hard drive. The only problem is > that for some reason neither my Gparted Live cd nor my gentoo live cd can > resize the partition. I'd reinstall everything, but Compaq doesn't like > providing OS restore disks, and instead put all the data on a separate > partition. Most likely the restore disk will just setup the same partition > scheme as before anyway. I've tried using the Vista disk partition utility, > but it could only give me 587 mb in between the restore and OS partitions. > It's annoying, does anyone know how to fix it? I've tried chkdsk and defrag > already, but to no avail.
The first thing I'd try is zipping the contents of c:\ drive>dvd, recreate your partitions and unzip to the smaller c:\ drive. I know this would work for ntfs. I know nothing about Vista though, and I'm fine with that. ;) -jm -- [email protected] mailing list
