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