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Ragnarok0mega
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 Posted: Sat Apr 08, 2006 2:11 am Post subject: Repartitioning after install? |
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| hey guys, i have a 160 GB hd with about 90 GB taken up with pictures ive taken, and ive recently wanted to get back into playing UO again, but i cant get it to work with wine, so i wanted to install windows again...but i didnt make a partition for it when i installed. is there any way i could possibly repartition now to make a partition for windows? if it helps any im running on reiserfs |
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PMcCauley
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I believe it can be done. Backup should be done before attempting though.
Check out. http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/
Also there is a resier_resize app but I don't know if it can shrink a partition
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Ragnarok0mega
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well, i tried the gparted live cd since the partition im working on is my root partition...but gparted would crash as it started to resize it. so im guessing i need to try something else, but i obviously need a live cd to do this (or is there another work around by chance?) can anyone give me some ideas?
my partition table runs
hda1 - boot
hda2 - swap
hda3 - root |
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Cintra
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Sounds pretty hairy to me..
if you have the means, it might be simpler to stick a new disk in there, make it master and the current one slave, changing your grub to take care of the hda/hdb shift. Then you have a simple Windows install with space for backup..
Mvh
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Ragnarok0mega
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| wel, i got it to work with resize_reiserfs on the gentoo livecd...only problem that i have now is that i cant get the windows CD to work, it goes to "setup is chicking your hardware configuration" then it goes to a black screen and stays there...and last night the CD booted up just fine....could using resize_reiserfs b0rk a windows setup? |
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Cintra
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| Ragnarok0mega wrote: | | wel, i got it to work with resize_reiserfs on the gentoo livecd...only problem that i have now is that i cant get the windows CD to work, it goes to "setup is chicking your hardware configuration" then it goes to a black screen and stays there...and last night the CD booted up just fine....could using resize_reiserfs b0rk a windows setup? |
thats interesting.. I have the same problem, sometimes!
There are days when I can boot the XP CD and there are days when I can't, and I haven't found the reason after months of looking. It happens with the XP CD and other CD's based on XP, like BartPE and UBCD4W. Only one thing to do, try again!
Mvh
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