New Dell Inspiron 9400: From Vista to Fedora/Vista.

[Claude Jones]

On Mon May 7 2007 5:34:31 pm Nat Gross wrote:
> I shall give Gparted a try. I don't usually have the
> oppurtunity to play with these. A bran new disk loaded with
> Vista is prime candidate<g>.
>

In both my cases, I actually removed one of the mirrored drives, 
shrunk the remaining one from a 500GB single partition to 150 GB 
partition. I then inserted a fresh drive in the mirrored array, 
and rebuilt the array - so, I had a go-back in place should 
something go wrong. Once I booted into Windows, in both cases, 
Windows detected something changed/amiss, and wanted to do a 
disk check, which I allowed. Once I was up, I used the Windows 
diskmanagement utilities to create a second partition on the 
drive, of 350 GB, and formatted it. In one case, GPARTED 
detected some files on the part of the drive I wanted to free 
up, and it took a couple of hours to re-arrange things so all 
existing data was on the to-be shrunked part of the partitioned 
drive; the second time, it didn't require that, and it re-wrote 
the partition tables in a second or two. 



-- 
Claude Jones
Brunswick, MD, USA