Hi,
According to FedEx, my new machine is on a truck speeding to my
local distribution center for delivery tomorrow. So hopefully it will
be here tomorrow. I had two questions:
1) It comes with Windoze 7 (with an upgrade option/disc for W8). Not
sure if I want to wipe it off (ideally, I would hav
On 2014-06-23 07:10, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
Hi,
According to FedEx, my new machine is on a truck speeding to my
local distribution center for delivery tomorrow. So hopefully it will
be here tomorrow. I had two questions:
1) It comes with Windoze 7 (with an upgrade option/disc for W8). Not
sure i
Hi Ranjan
regarding question 1) I got a PC (Desktop) with fully installed
Windoze 7 as well. I then told the Fedora Installer to shrink the
Windoze partition. Then I installed Fedora (without dual boot). And on
Linux I installed VirtualBox and I made Windoze 7 to operate in
VirtualBox.
This
On Mon, 23 Jun 2014 09:45:57 +0200 fedora wrote:
>
> On 2014-06-23 07:10, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > According to FedEx, my new machine is on a truck speeding to my
> > local distribution center for delivery tomorrow. So hopefully it will
> > be here tomorrow. I had two questions:
> >
On Mon, 23 Jun 2014 20:16:44 +1000 Roger wrote:
>
> > Hi Ranjan
> > regarding question 1) I got a PC (Desktop) with fully installed
> > Windoze 7 as well. I then told the Fedora Installer to shrink the
> > Windoze partition. Then I installed Fedora (without dual boot). And on
> > Linux I inst
On Mon, 23 Jun 2014 06:55:24 -0500 Ranjan Maitra
wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Jun 2014 09:45:57 +0200 fedora wrote:
>
> >
> > On 2014-06-23 07:10, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > According to FedEx, my new machine is on a truck speeding to my
> > > local distribution center for delivery tomo
On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 1:45 AM, fedora wrote:
> Hi Ranjan
> regarding question 1) I got a PC (Desktop) with fully installed Windoze 7
> as well. I then told the Fedora Installer to shrink the Windoze partition.
> Then I installed Fedora (without dual boot). And on Linux I installed
> VirtualBox
On 06/23/2014 09:57 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
Can the same be done with xp?
>If dual boot is used can we choose to boot to linux first without
>overwriting the MBR.
>Thanks
>Roger
Hello Roger,
Yes, this can be done with XP. My wife (who prefers the Debian-based
distributions) does exactly that w
On Mon, 23 Jun 2014 09:45:57 +0200 fedora wrote:
>
> On 2014-06-23 07:10, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > According to FedEx, my new machine is on a truck speeding to my
> > local distribution center for delivery tomorrow. So hopefully it will
> > be here tomorrow. I had two questions:
> >
On 06/23/2014 08:18 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
So, I first defragmented and then tried to shrink the W7 partition on
Windoze. However, the 500 GBib disk is shown as having only 226 GB
availability. What is in the rest of it? This is new and I have only
logged in, not added anything. What would happ
On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 9:32 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 06/23/2014 08:18 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
>
>> So, I first defragmented and then tried to shrink the W7 partition on
>> Windoze. However, the 500 GBib disk is shown as having only 226 GB
>> availability. What is in the rest of it? This is new
On 06/24/14 11:46, JD wrote:
> The only software I have used that CONSISTENTLY and RELIABLY shrunk
> an NTFS partition to make room for dual boot (installation of another OS),
> has been ParttionMagic 8.0.
> Unfortunately, it is only available for win32. It will NOT run on
> win64. I know, because
On 06/23/2014 08:46 PM, JD wrote:
The only software I have used that CONSISTENTLY and RELIABLY shrunk
an NTFS partition to make room for dual boot (installation of another OS),
has been ParttionMagic 8.0.
Thank you; I've never needed to shrink an ntfs partition, and didn't
know what programs
On Tue, 24 Jun 2014 12:00:33 +0800 Ed Greshko
wrote:
> On 06/24/14 11:46, JD wrote:
> > The only software I have used that CONSISTENTLY and RELIABLY shrunk
> > an NTFS partition to make room for dual boot (installation of another OS),
> > has been ParttionMagic 8.0.
> > Unfortunately, it is only
On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 10:07 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
>
> On 06/23/2014 08:46 PM, JD wrote:
>>
>> The only software I have used that CONSISTENTLY and RELIABLY shrunk
>> an NTFS partition to make room for dual boot (installation of another
OS),
>> has been ParttionMagic 8.0.
>
>
> Thank you; I've never
On 06/24/14 12:16, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> I tried exactly the above but I got a message which says that I can
> only shrink it to some 226 GB (or something like that). The HD is 500
> GB. So where did the rest go? All on Windows? Containing what? I did
> not fill anything.
When you bring up the di
On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 10:24 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 06/24/14 12:16, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> > I tried exactly the above but I got a message which says that I can
> > only shrink it to some 226 GB (or something like that). The HD is 500
> > GB. So where did the rest go? All on Windows? Contain
On 06/23/2014 09:30 PM, JD wrote:
It has limited functionality because there are certain files or dirs
that are for some reason I do not quite understand yet, are not
relocatable to other sectors (blocks :) ).
I don't know if it's still true, but back in the days of DOS and FAT,
any file that
Allegedly, on or about 23 June 2014, JD sent:
> Certainly you can shrink partitions using gparted,
> but if the partition happens to be a bootable NTFS partition,
> then gparted will not work :(
I've done that, it worked fine for me. Perhaps its more to do with your
partitioning, than the file s
On 06/24/2014 11:18 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> So, I first defragmented and then tried to shrink the W7 partition on
> Windoze. However, the 500 GBib disk is shown as having only 226 GB
> availability. What is in the rest of it? This is new and I have only
> logged in, not added anything. What wou
On Mon, 23 Jun 2014 22:12:39 -0700 Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 06/23/2014 09:30 PM, JD wrote:
> > It has limited functionality because there are certain files or dirs
> > that are for some reason I do not quite understand yet, are not
> > relocatable to other sectors (blocks :) ).
>
> I don't know if i
On Tue, 24 Jun 2014 19:24:39 -0500 Ranjan Maitra
wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Jun 2014 22:12:39 -0700 Joe Zeff wrote:
>
> > On 06/23/2014 09:30 PM, JD wrote:
> > > It has limited functionality because there are certain files or dirs
> > > that are for some reason I do not quite understand yet, are not
>
Allegedly, on or about 24 June 2014, Ranjan Maitra sent:
> OK, thanks, all! After struggling with this a bit, I have decided to
> delete Windoze and write away my forced purchase of W7 as a donation
> to the charity called MS. Life will be so much easier now.
If you want another challenge, try ge
On Wed, 25 Jun 2014 21:36:45 +0930 Tim
wrote:
> Allegedly, on or about 24 June 2014, Ranjan Maitra sent:
> > OK, thanks, all! After struggling with this a bit, I have decided to
> > delete Windoze and write away my forced purchase of W7 as a donation
> > to the charity called MS. Life will be so
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