| Subject: Shrink Volume for dual boot |
| Group: microsoft.public.windows.vista.installation_setup |
| Date: 8/8/2008 3:42:22 AM |
| From: "Ron O'Brien" [Email Address Protection] |
I am setting up a dual boot Vista Ultimate is installed and I intend adding XP Pro. I am following the instructions given at: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/install-windows-xp-on-your-pre-installed-windows-vista-computer/ Unfortunately I have stumbled on the first hurdle - shrinking the Vista Volume on C: My C; drive has a usable size of 279gb of which 107gb is used leaving 172gb free space. I want to generate a drive for XP that is 60gb but shrink volume won't let me. Shrink Volume shows the following: Total size before shrink in MB = 286171 [which is 279.4gb] Size of available shrink space in MB = 44428 [which is 43.3gb) Total after shrink in MB = 241743 [which is 236gb] If I try to enter 61440mb in the "Enter amount of space to shrink in MB", the "Total size after shrink" goes down to zero and is grayed out. So why can't I shrink my drive by 60gig? I need to do a full XP Pro installation, then install Avid Liquid (which states it needs 40gig on a clean XP install) then all the XP service packs, Anti virus, graphics card drivers I'm wondering if 60gig will be enough!!! -- Ron O'Brien |
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| Subject: Re: Shrink Volume for dual boot |
| Group: microsoft.public.windows.vista.installation_setup |
| Date: 8/8/2008 10:34:14 AM |
| From: "Timothy Daniels" [Email Address Protection] |
On my Dell laptop with pre-installed Vista, I had good luck using Gparted - a Linux partition manager which runs on a bare-bones version of Linux (which disappears when you exit Gparted). Gparted will shrink Vista's partition much further than will Vista's Disk Management, and it's just as intuitive to use. You can download a free .zip file to make a live USB stick (as I did) or you can download a free .iso file to make a live CD. These free files are are both available from http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php . Here's some user documentation: http://gparted.sourceforge.net/larry/livecd/livecd.htm (For the live USB, I take all the defaults at startup, except that I choose "1" - for the "Medium" level of expertise - and then I tell it NOT to let the startup routine select the graphic driver auto- matically, but then I accept its selection and the rest of the defaults.) Don't use Gparted to add or delete logical drives to/from a Vista- created Extended partition, though. Vista uses a new 2,048-sector offset from the beginning of its partitions, and the feature can cause problems for other partition managers in Extended partitions. *TimDaniels* "Ron O'Brien" wrote: >I am setting up a dual boot Vista Ultimate is installed and I intend adding XP >Pro. I am following the instructions given at: >http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/install-windows-xp-on-your-pre-installed-windows-vista-computer/ > > Unfortunately I have stumbled on the first hurdle - shrinking the Vista Volume > on C: > > My C; drive has a usable size of 279gb of which 107gb is used leaving 172gb > free space. > I want to generate a drive for XP that is 60gb but shrink volume won't let me. > > Shrink Volume shows the following: > > Total size before shrink in MB = 286171 [which is 279.4gb] > Size of available shrink space in MB = 44428 [which is 43.3gb) > Total after shrink in MB = 241743 [which is 236gb] > > If I try to enter 61440mb in the "Enter amount of space to shrink in MB", the > "Total size after shrink" goes down to zero and is grayed out. > > So why can't I shrink my drive by 60gig? I need to do a full XP Pro > installation, then install Avid Liquid (which states it needs 40gig on a clean > XP install) then all the XP service packs, Anti virus, graphics card drivers > I'm wondering if 60gig will be enough!!! > > -- > Ron O'Brien > |
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| Subject: Re: Shrink Volume for dual boot |
| Group: microsoft.public.windows.vista.installation_setup |
| Date: 8/11/2008 5:26:49 AM |
| From: "Ron O'Brien" [Email Address Protection] |
Just in case anyone else has this problem, I discovered how to get around it. Re-start in safe mode, then got into disk management \ shrink drive that way Ron |
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