Hi, You can use GParted Live CD to resize you Vista partition(s). Follow this link: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/using-gparted-to-resize-your-windows-vista-partition/
Hetz On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 6:20 PM, Erez D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi > > i have a few questions about a computer i bought and wanted to install linux > on. > > the computer came with vista preinstalled. > > i wanted to install linux. i tried ntfsresize, but it didn't work (doesn't > support vista partitions ?). > I tried to resize the partition from vista. it let me shrink the partition > to 50% of the hard-drive but not less (arrogant microsoft - they must be the > biggest partition) > so now i was able to install linux on half of the disk. > it was not long before the linux partition was full. > so mounted the ntfs partition ant put some data on it, but the performance > sucks, and i do not want to put big files in a seperate (NTFS) partition. > > > i found also a small NTFS partition, i assume it is for reinstalling VISTA. > > so here are my questions: > > 1. if i erase the vista partition, can i reinstall it from the other ? > 2. if i want to buck the partitions up. is there a open soure software > similiar to norton-ghost that supports vista's and linux's partition. > 3. is there an open source software that can resize the vista partition > (ntfsresize does not work) > > 10x, > erez. > > -- Skepticism is the lazy person's default position. my blog (hebrew): http://benhamo.org ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
