[aklug] Re: Windows installer and partitioning

Kenneth D Weinert wrote:
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> Christopher Howard wrote:
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>> Does the Windows installer (XP/Vista) allow the user to decide how
>> he wants to partition the drive? It's been so long since I
>> installed a Windows OS, I can't remember. I was going to be
>> helping someone setup a Windows/Linux dual boot, and I was trying
>> to decide what to do if I found out that the current Windows
>> installation was only on one partition that covers the entire
>> drive.
>>
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> I'll tell you that I just recently bought a laptop with Vista
> installed and it was *much* easier to boot into Vista and use their
> disk tool to resize the partition then install Ubuntu.
>
> It worked fine, the only thing I might have done differently was not
> take the default resizing as Vista split the disk in half. I did read
> that you need to be careful when you specify the partition size that
> you don't make it too small. Vista will happily resize the partition
> but then it can't boot because it's too small.
>
> I don't know what the actual requirements are for the minimum disk
> size, that's an exercise left for the reader :)
>
> I left Vista installed because I do cross platform development and I
> thought I could use a virtual with the existing partition to be able
> to test it on Windows when I needed to, but that's not looking as easy
> as I thought. I *think* the paid version of VMWare is the only thing
> that can do that. Info to the contrary would be welcome.
>
> Ken
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While we are on the subject... how the heck do you get to the Vista disk
partitioning tool, anyway? I've been on Linux for so long, Vista seems
like a convoluted maze of menus and categories.
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Received on Sat Oct 11 12:15:31 2008