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   Subject: Re: Dual boot Ubuntu + preloaded Vista   
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   The Etobian wrote:   
      
   >    
   > 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 managed to get the dual boot working using my preloaded version   
   of Vista home basic by doing this. (This is if you only have one   
   big Vista partition and no extended partitions and have the means   
   to restore your original installation if necessary)   
      
   Back up whatever's important, have the recovery disk available   
   Log on as administrator   
      
   Click the start menu and scroll up to "computer"   
      
   right click "computer" and select "manage"   
      
   Under manage select 'disk management'   
      
   Find the Vista partition/volume and right click   
   it and select 'shrink volume'   
      
   After shrinking the Vista volume as much as is needed   
   find the newly unallocated space in the disk management   
   window and right click it, and create a simple volume   
   with it.  I quick formatted mine with fat32, as Vista   
   could not do it as ext3 system, and assigned it a new   
   drive letter.   
      
   In Ubuntu install, don't select to erase /format the   
   entire disk or manual install.  Let Ubuntu resize and   
   format the UNUSED volume/partition free space.   
   Complete the install, remove the disk, restart   
      
   Reboot,  press esc to bring up the boot menu   
   when you are prompted to do so.   
      
   When you reboot,  Vista won't be in the boot menu.   
   Let Ubuntu start,  go to the terminal and type   
   gksudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst   
      
   Add these three lines at the bottom of that file:   
      
   title              Windows Vista   
   root               (hd0,0)   
   chainloader        +1   
      
   and save the file.   
      
   Again reboot,  press esc to bring up the boot menu   
   when you are prompted to do so, Vista will be there   
   this time.   
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