Re: Partitions --- installing Linux + Vista
- From: Arno Wagner <me@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 22 Jun 2007 15:27:11 GMT
Previously Zico <zico@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Jun 21, 7:58 pm, Arno Wagner <m...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I think Gnu Parted cannot currently resize NTFS partitions in non-destructive
mode. It can resize FAT32. Was the Vista-partition NTFS?
Yes. My memory must be seriously betraying me nowadays; I was sort
of 100% certain that I had done this exact procedure with Win2K and
WinXP machines (always with NTFS).
Very unlikely ;-)
Now Vista won't boot; the BIOS-based recovery (from the "hidden"
partition) won't work.
That is strange. This one should allways work, unless it was
screwed up by the people that designed it.
I thought it was strange, but since I don't know the details and the
internals of G-PartED, I'm not sure about the reason why it's
happening.
If the hidden-partition approach does not work, they ought to
give you the CDs for free. Don't tell them you installed Ubuntu.
Tell them it does not boot and the BIOS recovery does not work.
That makes sense; I mean, after all, I do find it an abuse and
very poor service that they give me a lousy hidden partition
with the OS, when I'm actually paying for it (and the physical
media is like, what, a few cents' extra cost?)... Anyway, I'll
stop -- the ranting part *is* indeed off-topic :-)
Once I wanted the XP disks for my IBM ThinkPad. The guy on the phone
told me he could send them to me for 40 EUR, but that I should phone
hardware support (he even gave me the number) and claim I could not
install from the hidden partition to get them for free. A bit
convoluted, but still good service in my book.
Does it not react at all, or does it complain? If it complains then
the hack would be to go back to the original partition sizes.
Interesting. Before installing Ubuntu (and after resizing the
partition), it would give me a text screen with two choices:
- Repair what's preventing Vista from Starting
- Start Windows Vista normally
In both cases, I do see the Windows logo and the progress
bar moving, but only for a few seconds; then the screen
goes blank and the thing dies.
I think you may have installed Ubuntu over part of the data of the
old partition. Before you wrote to the new partition, the data was
still essentially there. Now it is not.
Any hope for me?
Can you tell the BIOS to reconstruct the original Partition
table?
??? I'm not familiar with this option/procedure; how would
I do that? Is it a special option available on some BIOSes?
How would I determine if I can do it?
Look whether it gioves you the special option somewere.
I guess attempting to resize it to its original size with G-PartED
itself would be out of the question?
You can do that. But I seriously doubt it will help. Best get the
CDs.
Arno
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