Damon Register wrote:
I hope this is enough on topic. I just bought a Compaq notebook computer that has Vista. I would like to repartition it so that I can have a separate partition for data and so that I can later install SuSE. I attempted to repartition with Partition Magic 8 and found it could not properly identify the partition so it would not let me resize. I also could not get Ghost to backup the drive.
The first question(s) I have is this: do any of the Linux world partition tools deal with a Vista partition? Has anyone tried a dual boot setup with Vista and SuSE? I was just looking at Parted and qtparted but they seem old and I don't know if they support Vista.
The parted tools aren't old, as far as I know. I just used them pretty effectively to move one drive to another (which included both ext3 and ntfs for Windows XP partitions). But as far as I know, there's nothing special about a "Vista" file system. It is just an NTFS file system, so any tool that can deal with NTFS should work fine with VISTA. That being said, I have read in a few other places about new computers, esp. laptops, having some kind of special, hidden, 'backup' partition that seems to confused many of these tools. -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:jdarnold@buddydog.org) Daemon Dancing in the Dark, an Open OS weblog: http://freebsd.amazingdev.com/blog/ UNIX is user-friendly. It's just a bit picky about who its friends are. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org