GParted, sda1

MUFASABINLADEN · #1 7th March 2008, 11:42 PM

Trying to dual boot. Gparted gives me this error:

What do I do?
I could probably edit the partition through the Windows installation disk, but I don't know if it would make me lose my data or not. The 143GB partition has Windows Vista on it.

Brian1 · #2 8th March 2008, 01:49 AM

Are you using the latest gparted ISO? Anyways even you use gparted or any other partition manager tool whether Windows app or whatever I would make a backup of important data. You could have a power failure, power glitch, blow a power supply in the middle of the process and loss it all. Just worst case.

Brian

MUFASABINLADEN · #3 8th March 2008, 03:18 AM

I was just using GParted from the Fedora 8 LiveCD.

ryptyde · #4 8th March 2008, 01:04 PM

The easiest way to resize/shrink your Vista ntfs partition is with Vista's "disk management tool". Shrink the ntfs partition to a size that will leave "unallocated free space" for your Linux install.

MUFASABINLADEN · #5 8th March 2008, 07:16 PM

OK. I will try that then.
I did that before, and I messed up... not fun.
Hopefully I get it this time.