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I just got a new laptop and it came pre-installed with a Windows Vista. But I am a Fedora user. Now, it would be easy for me to just remove Vista and use the entire disk space for Fedora. But the thing is, I thought that it would be nice to keep the Windows partition for non-Linux non-Windows-on-a-VM tasks whatever those tasks are.
Right now, the hard drive has 2 partitions: C:\
, which is the primary partition where the current apps installed is already occupying 17GB of hard disk space, and D:\
, the RECOVERY partition. What I want to do is to resize the hard disk space of the C drive to 30GB, keep the RECOVERY partition, then use the remaining hard disk space for Fedora 11 while having them dual-boot using GRUB.
How can I accomplish such setup without having the need to reinstall Vista?
Why use GParted when Vista has it's own disk shrink utility? – Randell – 2009-10-11T08:13:55.403
1Actually I use Gparted in the Ubuntu live CD. I just don't like the partitioner that come with Vista. It looks cumbersome to me :D Besides, it doesn't show clearly what is primary, what is extended and logical, which Gparted does. And I'm afraid that I would make some mistake on that. – phunehehe – 2009-10-11T12:28:52.703
I found out that Vista's disk management tool can only resize the partitions down to 50% of the original size. – Randell – 2009-10-12T02:20:31.963