Re-partitioning/dual boot with Vista

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 11:55:48AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> Vista's new boot loader is paranoid.  Any unexpected changes to the
> partition makes it barf.  It is simple to fix using the recovery system
> on the install DVD, assuming you have one.  Now in the case of Dell I
> believe they actually do include a real install DVD, unlike most OEMs.
> Microsoft prefers recovery discs over real install discs, but apparently
> Dell told them otherwise.
> 
> Preferably you resize the vista partition using the disk manager inside
> vista (which works quite well at that job) in which case you have no
> issue.  The only issue is that it won't resize smaller than it can
> without moving any files.  So if a file is near the end of the partition
> then you won't be able to shrink it very much.  I suppose a good defrag
> tool would help, but vista only ships with a crappy defrag tool which
> doesn't help.
> 
> I have resized vista using partition magic and used the recovery program
> on a vista RC DVD image I happend to download from microsoft back when
> they were doing RC releases, and it fixed the boot loader of the full
> vista release just fine.
> 
> Installing grub to the MBR works fine and vista has no issues with that.

I think I tried using gparted as well, and it too needs fixing with the
recovery system afterwards or at least did at the time.

-- 
Len Sorensen
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