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