On 5/8/07, JzG <hawk.hunter@gmail.com> wrote:
> I personally think your best bet is to flatten the hard drive, and reinstall
> everything. Partiton the sizes you want > install Windows > install linux >
> profit.
>
>
> On 5/7/07, Tim Wright <t.wright1@mindspring.com> wrote:
> > I've run into this problem myself on several XP systems since 2003. It
> looks
> > like Windows places some immobile files out in the nether regions of the
> hard
> > drive to discourage resizing the partition. From what I can see you can
> > either bulldoze it flat and forget about running Windows or install a
> second
> > hard drive for Linux. This "feature" of NTFS is just another way Microsoft
> > shows how they can't play nice with anybody.
> >
> > On Monday 07 May 2007 9:48 pm, Chuck Hast wrote:
> > > I purchased a machine today, it was preloaded with the usual MS OS...
> Has
> > > a 250G HD, so I figured rather than blow the mess away I would keep it
> for
> > > a couple of programs that I can run Windows on. I put my SuSE DVD in the
> > > machine and it checked it out and gave me the option of re-sizing the
> > > windows partition, all went well until I got to the point where it was
> to
> > > do so, it gave me a error and failed. Vista is using NTFS, I have
> resized
> > > NTFS with SuSE before, and never had this problem. Anyone run into this
> > > one?
> >
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Guys, thanks for the info, I found it early this morning, I was trying to use
SuSE 10.1 to install, I found my 10.2 disk and it knew what to do, resized
and is now installed.
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