[ale] installing Ubuntu on a Windows system

[Tim Watts]

I've used the Ubuntu resize feature on Vista/NTFS with no problems at all -- 
also on a 140GB drive. I DID defrag before proceeding to ensure maximum 
resizability. If you have the means to recover, I'd give it a try.


On Wednesday 07 October 2009 5:28:16 pm Asher Vilensky wrote:
> Yuck!  My disk size is 140G.  The partition is about 137G.  I had about 90G
> free before the shrinking.  However, the Vista shrink program game me only
> about 13G for other partitions and kept 76G free of disk space for the
> current C: partition (Partition_1).  I tried to re-shrink, but it wouldn't
> allow.  Any other Vista secrets to help convince this stupid OS that I HAVE
> THE SPACE...IT IS MINE...GIVE IT TO ME?
>
> -- Asher
>
> On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Greg Freemyer 
<greg.freemyer at gmail.com>wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Geoffrey <lists at serioustechnology.com>
> >
> > wrote:
> > > I'll say it one more time.  Vista is a different NTFS variant.  The
> > > research I did indicated that you want to resize the Vista partition
> > > from Vista.
> >
> > OpenSUSE 11.1 (the latest released) will refuse to resize a Vista NTFS
> > partition.
> >
> > You have to resize from inside Vista first, so I agree with the above.
> >
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