[ale] installing Ubuntu on a Windows system

[Asher Vilensky]

To those who [care and] don't remember, I wanted to install Linux Mint right
next to Vista.  But Vista wouldn't shrink its filesystem.  I ended up using
an evaluation copy of PerfectDisk.  It defraggmented Vista beautifully,
moving scattered system files back to the main area.  Following that, Vista
shrunk itself nicely.

Just wanted to close the loop.

-- Asher


On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 6:52 PM, Asher Vilensky <ashervilensky at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> -- Asher
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 6:28 PM, Geoffrey <lists at serioustechnology.com>wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
>> Hmmm, we didn't seem to have that problem.  So you can't shrink the
>> Vista partition any smaller?
>>
>
> Found this, which confirms that Vista is buggy:
>
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> http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/working-around-windows-vistas-shrink-volume-inadequacy-problems/
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>
> Will try it soon.  To be continued...
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>
>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Until later, Geoffrey
>>
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