Hi, Thanks for the reply. I hope Orca works well with parted from the live CD.
I don't have any data at all to worry about on my Ubuntu partitions. And, I just got a new secondary internal hard drive that I can use, the whole disk, for Ubuntu this time. thanks again. ~Ann Luke Yelavich wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 09:26:43PM EST, ANN wrote: > >> Hi folks, >> >> I recently tried to install the latest Ubuntu Linux on an external hard >> drive. It was kind of a disaster at first, so I ended up putting it on >> my internal drive, instead. I have a dual boot system with XP Home also >> on that 80 GB drive. >> > <Snip> > >> Is there an accessible tool that I can use, with the orca screen reader, >> to safely and nondestructively resize my Window partition to get a good >> chunk of the space taken by the Ubuntu partition? >> > > What you will need to do, is use a live CD to completely delete the Ubuntu > partitions, and resize the windows partition to the size you want. Once you > have done this, you can re-create the Ubuntu partitions and re-install. There > is no way to resize the ubuntu partitions from the beginning of the > partitions, only the end. So you will have to back up any important data from > ubuntu that you need. > > I believe the gparted utility on the live CD can help you do the above. I > would advise you to make sure you have everything important backed up, in > case something happens and you destroy your disk. > > Hope this helps. > > Luke > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFIOy8ijVefwtBjIM4RAo8qAKDOZjKm3Xk53rGw5auBATlgm1sXygCfZaKU > ZXOOSlZX6qe3pQlywB3CuHY= > =h7/5 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
