tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29763791.post506397914454360004..comments2023-10-31T05:07:19.353-04:00Comments on Delenda est Carthago: Losing My LinuxDr. Φhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14086783503820477029noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29763791.post-16165757058970261632010-05-05T18:03:16.493-04:002010-05-05T18:03:16.493-04:00I haven't used Vista, but both XP and Win7 wil...I haven't used Vista, but both XP and Win7 will allow you to create partitions or expand them in unpartitioned space. It will also allow you to delete partitions, but what it will NOT allow is moving the boundary between two partitions that you want to keep.Dr. Φhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14086783503820477029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29763791.post-71773838985242716512010-05-05T16:46:48.628-04:002010-05-05T16:46:48.628-04:00I thought even Vista had a built-in partitioner? I...I thought even Vista had a built-in partitioner? I'm pretty sure I changed the size of my partitions from within Vista so I could co-install Ubuntu...? No?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29763791.post-83814288837239031972010-05-05T12:46:55.584-04:002010-05-05T12:46:55.584-04:00In my experience, which is dated, trying to alter ...In my experience, which is dated, trying to alter partitions (even with commercial software dedicated to that purpose) is always somewhat risky. A while back the late, great Partition Magic made a whole slew of files on a partition inaccessible. <br /><br />I thought that maybe the more recent software was better, but I wouldn't trust it with a partition with data on it. Sounds like for your purposes you didn't have any sensitive data on there that didn't exist elsewhere (or little enough of it that you could have backed it up) so it was probably worth a shot. Sorry it didn't work out.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29763791.post-37945639871293983632010-05-05T12:19:15.521-04:002010-05-05T12:19:15.521-04:00That's not a bad idea. I guess the applicatio...That's not a bad idea. I guess the applications created data directories in the same partition. I could have worked around that, I guess, but at some point I thought it would be easier to add space to the win7 partition. (Didn't work out so great.)Dr. Φhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14086783503820477029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29763791.post-42831378741746547582010-05-05T11:59:12.090-04:002010-05-05T11:59:12.090-04:00Why did you need the extra space for Win7? If it w...Why did you need the extra space for Win7? If it wasn't for applications, my advice would be to keep a separate partition for non-system files. Something like 30GB for each OS and then 375GB for a data partition for data files. Or 50 per OS and 315 for data. Rarely will you need more than 30, though.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com