[ale] installing Ubuntu on a Windows system

[Asher Vilensky]

-- 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:

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/working-around-windows-vistas-shrink-volume-inadequacy-problems/


Will try it soon.  To be continued...



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