RE: can someone help

From: Richard D. Moore <dewey.moore@gmail.com>
Date: Tue Aug 07 2007 - 15:59:11 AKDT

If you install partition magic on windows and use partition magic to shrink
the partition down to the size needed. There is a very small chance that
there is data corruption, also another thing is that if you do a defrag
before there is a even smaller chance there is data corruption..

Rich

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Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2007 3:15 PM
To: Fielder George Dowding
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Subject: Re: can someone help

Fielder George Dowding wrote:
> On 8/2/07, rspickles@computers4all.org <rspickles@computers4all.org>
wrote:
>
>> Hi all
>> There may be a lady showing up at the AKLUG meeting this week looking
>> for some help - She has a laptop that has had Windows take a crash - She
>> wants to salvage some files if possible. Right now her computer is
>> blue-screening during the boot process. I do have a board that you can
>> use to connect a laptop drive into a desktop computer if someone would
>> like to use it to make the job easier. I cannot be at the meeting this
>> Friday - Wedding anniversary. So if this lady shows can someone take
>> care of her.
>>
>> Roger
>>
>>
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> Wow! I am in a similar pickle (pun intended). This young woman handed her
HP
> Pavilion zv6000 series laptop to me to recover files. When booting,
Windows
> XP comes up with the save mode choice, but it just strums its lips no
matter
> what choice is selected. I whipped out a handy copy of Knoppix (ancient
> version 3.3) and popped it into the DVD/CD drive. It booted but complained
> about the ACPI. Given the age of the Knoppix CD, I suspected a later
version
> might boot properly. In any case I got a root prompt so I mounted the hard
> drive at a convienent point, namely /mnt. Stuff was there, so she asked me
> to take it home and burn a CD with her files.
> At home, I dragged out an Ubuntu CD (Dapper Drake) 6.x and popped it into
> the appropriate orifice. It booted without complaining about the ACPI, but
> the CD did not have the Broadcom wireless (bcm43xx) firmware, so it
couldn't
> bring up the wireless. The Ethernet port worked just fine, so I set about
> checking out Ubuntu and off loading her files to my traveling mirror which
> is what I had with me when I tried booting with that acient copy of
Knoppex.
>
> I conclude the Windows XP operating system (excuse the expression) has
> committed Hari Kari. She took the precious little beastie to Best Buy or
> CompUSA. Some tech told her the motherboard was probably toast, so she
> bought herself a new computer at one of the office supply places (Office
Max
> or Office Depot). They had a really good one time deal apparently.
>
> I am recommending she let me install Ubuntu. I would like to resize the
> partition so I can later mount the old partition read-only after Ubuntu is
> up and running with all the latest restricted drivers and codecs.
>
> I am heading to Valdez tomorrow (Friday) so I won't be at the Laboratory
> Session.
>
> Cheerio!
>
>

Shrinking the Windows partition could cause data loss. A few Fridays
back a guy came in and wanted to dual boot with Ubuntu. I gave him my
warning speech. Any way, Ubuntu ran fine but Windows wouldn't boot.

I've never had a problem shrinking Windows. However, I don't do it that
often. My recommendation is to get any important data off the drive and
then install Ubuntu.
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