-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday, 2010-03-02 at 12:55 -0800, N B Day wrote:
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.
I concur. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkuNfgYACgkQtTMYHG2NR9XHRwCgjVV46+e/+fT0njvL+H1mKxmk FDgAoJIdmM8WI+j8b5C+6nsk2AERKj+G =zQsq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org