Resizing Windows Patition
Submitted by ccameron on September 24, 2007 - 12:42.
Hey Guys,
I had to wipe my hard-drive a week ago, because windows kept reverting to the famous blue screen. Well I reinstalled windows, and it partitioned the whole drive to itself, and I want to put ubuntu back on it. Thing is when I try install ubuntu and try to manually adjust the partition or get ubuntu to automatically do it, both end up saying they cannot do it. I need to know a way to resize it.
Thanks
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Strange...
The Ubuntu install manager should be able to create both a EXT3 and a SWAP at the end of your partition, and just trim a little off of the NTFS partition that Windows is on, AS LONG AS both new partitions are at the END of your partition table. If not, run a LiveCD of Ubuntu and try using a program called GParted. I believe it has tools for resizing an NTFS partition. If that fails, you could go with the fallback position and try installing Windows again, but this time, only using a small portion of the disk.
If you go with the latter, here's my recommendation for how you should set up your table:
5GB NTFS (for Windows)
6GB EXT3 (for Ubuntu)
1GB swap
the rest as FAT32 (for a shared partition)
Good luck!
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Josh Gaber
Recommended partitions
Just one small disagreement here, Josh...
Windows can easily fill 10 gb after a few things have been installed. I made a 10 gb partition for it, and installed all my proggies to a separate partition, but still found that I was right down to 50 mb's in no time. Remember, things like Hibernation, etc, will all take up quite a bit of room. I'd allot at least 10 gb to Windows, myself.
Only other beef is "the rest". Linux now can read/write NTFS without a problem, and NTFS is a considerably better file system. So I'd replace Fat32 with NTFS there as well.
Aside from that, his advice is indeed sound.
Randall Roberts
SOCIS President
Rebuttal
-- Windows can easily fill 10 gb after a few things have been installed. I made a 10 gb partition for it, and installed all my proggies to a separate partition, but still found that I was right down to 50 mb's in no time. Remember, things like Hibernation, etc, will all take up quite a bit of room. I'd allot at least 10 gb to Windows, myself.
Things like hibernation, virtual memory, etc., you can assign them to be written on a separate drive. That's how I was able to run Windows on a 3GB partition.
-- Only other beef is "the rest". Linux now can read/write NTFS without a problem, and NTFS is a considerably better file system. So I'd replace Fat32 with NTFS there as well.
News to me.
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Josh Gaber