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Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 20:51:54 -0800
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Subject: Re: Dual boot Ubuntu + preloaded Vista
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The Etobian wrote:
> 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?
I was finally able to create another partition from within vista
by right clicking "computer", clicking the menu option "manage"
then going into the disk manager, right clicking the Vista partition
and shrinking it, then right clicking the unallocated space that
was created and changing that to a simple volume. It couldn't make
an ext3 partition though, just ntfs or fat32.
I then let Ubuntu installation resize and install into the new
partition volume.
HOWEVER,
I don't know if it worked properly because the grub menu doesn't
list Vista and I have to edit the grub menu (which needs root
priviledges) before I can try it.
I'm not going to recommend doing this because I don't know if
it even worked properly yet.
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