On 07/03/15 18:33, Doug wrote: > On 07/03/2015 07:22 PM, jd1008 wrote: >> On 07/03/2015 02:16 PM, g wrote: > /snip/ >> I found a win7 program (Free as in no cash payment needed). >> Download from http://download.resize-c.com/resizer-free.zip >> It resizes partitions on all windows. jd1008, what happens to locked directories and files? see below for a brief of how i got laptop configured. > /snip/ >> >> JD > Unfortunately there is no information at this url, just the zip file. > Do you know if it will move the files that Windows puts way out about > halfway thru the existing partition, that normally limits how far you > can shrink Windows? good question. below is what i did because programs i pulled to do such did not properly move files. above 'resizer-free' may work, but i did not find such program in search i made. if one uses the win prog that creates the recovery dvd's, those files will be restored within a shrunk or re-partitioned partition. as for validating the coa code, that was not a problem either because i did allow win7 to run it's update prog and it ran without any problem. ____ originally drive was; sda1 hidden, win7 boot, data, diag sda2 win7 os sda3 HDDRECOVERY using partition magic, i reduced sda2 size to open up room for extened partition, leaving 'HDDRECOVERY' in place. i then made the gained space an extended partition where after partitioning, sda3 HDDRECOVERY became sda4 HDDRECOVERY. reason for leaving HDDRECOVERY at end of drive was because i did not know what would happen if i moved it to new sda3 position with sda4 being extended. i reformatted sda2 as ntfs and sliced up the new extended partition so that when i finished i had drive setup as; /dev/sda1 ntfs 1G46 hidden, win7 boot, data, diag /dev/sda2 ntfs 40G15 win7 /dev/sda3 extended 183G19 /dev/sda5 ext4 1G00 /boot /dev/sda6 swap 2G88 swap /dev/sda7 ext4 10G00 / {centos 6 /dev/sda8 ext4 10G00 { open for additional linux systems /dev/sda9 ext4 10G00 { open for additional linux systems /dev/sda10 ext4 10G00 { open for additional linux systems /dev/sda11 ext4 78G13 /home /dev/sda12 ext4 61G15 /hdd/sda/12 unallocated 4M83 /dev/sda4 ntfs 8G09 hidden HDDRECOVERY after above partitioning, i reinstalled win7 via the recovery dvd's. rebooted and all worked well. then i installed centos 6, install picked up on the win7 partition and made it 'other' in grub boot menu. i assigned sda5 thru sda12 as shown above. i now have a laptop that is dual boot and both systems run without any problems. -- peace out. -+- If Bill Gates got a dime for every time Windows crashes... ...oh, wait. He does. THAT explains it! -+- in a world with out fences, who needs gates. -+- CentOS GNU/Linux 6.6 tc,hago. g . -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
