I run Windows Vista on dual boot. My inclination is to get rid of it altogether, but I paid for a license thanks to the Microsoft Tax when I bought the machine and sometimes vendors (Garmin for example) only support Windows.
I gave Windows Vista 12GB with virtually no applications and it’s used it all up. It refuses to install Vista SP1 because there isn’t enough room.
Rubbish.
Enter GParted – the Gnome Partition Editor. It is included with the Ubuntu install CD which doubles as a live CD (just select the ‘try Ubuntu without changing my system’ option when you boot the CD). Boot from the CD, run GParted, drag your partitions around and let it do its thing. A few hours of disk crunching later you have successfully resized your ext3 and NTFS partitions.
Impressive stuff this free and open source software.
Incidentally, I should say that I’m a bit grumpy that Vista needs more than 12GB just to exist and with virtually no software installed. That really sucks.
September 21st, 2008 at 1:24 pm
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