On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 3:14 PM, John Heinen wrote:

On the hard drive we have as follows according to qt parted partition             size           used    space start  end       recovery 1 /dev/sda1 ntfs   15.54 gb   N/A     0.03 mb     15.54 gb recovery 2 /dev/sda2 nfts 115.55 gb  37 gb  15.54gb  13108. gb   partittion

the rest of the hard drive is filled with opensuse, linux mint etc. Partittion 1 and 2 is windows vista but won't open probably on account off sda1 is full,  in other words; vista cannot operate unless it has free space in  da1 to backup

Is there a way with "Qt parted"  to decrease /dev/sda2  and increase the backup sda1 by the same in order for vista to backup

I do understand that we should not discuss windows on the forum but I do need windows yet for wubi,  taxes, and bibel programs, (some combo)  John H --

Do not do any partition operations on mounted file system(s), I assume you are using ntfs-3g to mount those partitions in Linux. I have done similar partition re-sizing successfully without data loss, using gparted through a boot CD, preferring Parted Magic (http://partedmagic.com/), however it is highly recommended to make a partition /essential file/folder backup before proceeding. Jay -- Linux User 483705 @ http://counter.li.org/ (Linux Counter) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Tue, 2010-03-02 at 01:44 -0800, John Heinen wrote:

On the hard drive we have as follows according to qt parted partition size used space start end recovery 1 /dev/sda1 ntfs 15.54 gb N/A 0.03 mb 15.54 gb recovery 2 /dev/sda2 nfts 115.55 gb 37 gb 15.54gb 13108. gb partittion

the rest of the hard drive is filled with opensuse, linux mint etc. Partittion 1 and 2 is windows vista but won't open probably on account off sda1 is full, in other words; vista cannot operate unless it has free space in da1 to backup

Is there a way with "Qt parted" to decrease /dev/sda2 and increase the backup sda1 by the same in order for vista to backup John,

I've never seen a setup like what you think you have. Looks to me like sda1 is a simple recovery partition, with an image of what was on sda2 when you bought the machine. The manufacturer naturally makes the recovery space just large enough to hold the restore images. The docs that came with your computer should tell you how to boot to a recovery mode and restore "factory" Vista (should you want to). I just got through restoring my wife's completely farkled Windows 7 on a cheap Compaq machine. It was dead easy and I look like I'm smarter than I am. We used her Linux on the same machine to recover her data, downloads and the .ini files for a vertical app she needs to use in in Windows. I endorse the other folks' recommendation of Parted Magic (shrink partitions one-at-a-time from the right end to make space) if you feel you must enlarge sda1, but I'm pretty sure that sda1 being full is not the cause of Vista's refusal to start. -- N. B. Day 39° 28.3964' North, 119° 48.6346' West, 1403m up Aurelius up 1 day 6:36, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.02, 0.00 2.6.31.12-0.1-desktop x86_64 GNU/Linux openSUSE 11.2 (x86_64) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Tuesday 02 March 2010 01:44:25 am John Heinen wrote:

On the hard drive we have as follows according to qt parted partition size used space start end recovery 1 /dev/sda1 ntfs 15.54 gb N/A 0.03 mb 15.54 gb recovery 2 /dev/sda2 nfts 115.55 gb 37 gb 15.54gb 13108. gb partittion

the rest of the hard drive is filled with opensuse, linux mint etc. Partittion 1 and 2 is windows vista but won't open probably on account off sda1 is full, in other words; vista cannot operate unless it has free space in da1 to backup

Is there a way with "Qt parted" to decrease /dev/sda2 and increase the backup sda1 by the same in order for vista to backup

I do understand that we should not discuss windows on the forum but I do need windows yet for wubi, taxes, and bibel programs, (some combo) John H

Windows vista and 7 both use the restore partition to restore the factory default system. Manufacturers use this to save money. That way they don't have to include a system DVD with the system, just make the user available space smaller. This shows the ls of /dev/sda1 on my Dell Studio laptop: tom@laptop=/home/tom $ laptop:/home/tom # mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt tom@laptop=/home/tom $ laptop:/home/tom # ls /mnt tom@laptop=/home/tom $ Boot bootmgr BOOTSECT.BAK $RECYCLE.BIN System Volume Information -- Thanks, Tom (retired penguin) openSUSE 11.3M2 x86_64, KDE 4.4.0 Kmail 1.13.0, FF 3.6 linxt-at-comcast.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org