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   From: The Etobian    
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   Subject: Re: Dual boot Ubuntu + preloaded Vista   
   Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 20:29:27 -0500   
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   On Sun, 18 Feb 2007 09:39:38 -0800, ace  wrote:   
      
   >I have a laptop with Vista Home preloaded.   
   >I want to install Ubuntu 6.06 but keep my   
   >Vista installation because I might want to   
   >use Vista someday.   
   >I wasn't given an actual Vista OS disk but   
   >a recovery DVD.  This is my fault because   
   >I was dumb enough to order without reading   
   >carefully first so I cannot add/alter any   
   >partitions within Vista.  This leaves me   
   >with one big Vista partition and one small   
   >recovery partition.   
   >I want to use Gparted to partition during   
   >the Ubuntu installation.  I have searched   
   >many forums about this subject, some people   
   >say you can't have a Vista partition reduced   
   >or changed this way and have Vista boot up   
   >again, some people say it is easy to do so.   
   >Has anyone installed Ubuntu on a computer   
   >with just one big partition set up for Vista   
   >and Gparted/Installed Ubuntu there, and had   
   >it work?   
      
   I did the same thing.  After several e-mails back and forth with tech   
   support, my laptop is now being sent to the factory for low-level   
   formatting and restoration of the same type of partitions you   
   describe.  I should have it back in a week or so.   
      
   From what I can tell, using Gparted to resize your partitions will   
   totally screw up your Vista bootloader and partition.  And you can't   
   use the recovery disk to restore the partitions or bootloader.  And   
   since the laptop has SATA drives and no floppy drive, installing XP is   
   not an option...and I would have settled on that.   
      
   Which leaves this question: what partition manager can I use within   
   Vista to resize the Vista partition and create an Ext3 partition?   
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