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.
I would go slowly here, very slowly. You may get a good image but it may fail when/if restored. I have found but not identified the specific difference in the Vista volume structure but in my limited work with Vista, I have found that there is a difference and your mileage may very. FYI, Vista is based on Windows 2003 Server. Clint -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org