[svlug] Formatting to NTFS

[Will Ashford]

More preferable would be to then have the Vista installer create a
partition of the appropriate size so you can avoid having to shrink it
altogether. Whether Vista allows that or not I don't know.

Will

On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Jeremiah Wuenschel
<jeremiah.wuenschel at gmail.com> wrote:
> Your best bet may be to use "gparted" from a live cd. Just delete your
> current partitions and have Vista re-create them on installation. You can
> then come along with the Ubuntu installation cd and ask it to shrink your
> existing NTFS partition rather than using the whole thing. As long as you
> don't need to keep what is on the drive now, this would probably be the path
> of least resistance.
>
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Skip Evans <skip at bigskypenguin.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hey all,
>>
>> I got a new Dell Latitude E6500 which came with Vista on it.
>> When I went to install Ubuntu there was not enough room left
>> so I tried to resize the partitions, but got them boofed up
>> because, frankly, I don't know much about manually
>> partitioning a drive, because I always choose defaults and the
>> OS always does it fine for my needs.
>>
>> So then I was unable to reinstall Vista from the CD that came
>> with the laptop to start over. Right now I just have Ubuntu
>> installed so I can use it, but now I need Vista back to use a
>> camera I'm going to be doing some streaming with.
>>
>> When I try to use the CD that came with the machine it says it
>> cannot install it to the main partition Ubuntu created and
>> that "Vista can only be installed on a partition formatted as
>> NTFS," and it stops.
>>
>> Is there a Linux utility I can use to reformat the whole drive
>> so Vista then be restored? Then I'll use the Vistra shrink
>> partition instructions I found via Ubuntuforums here:
>>
>>
>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WindowsDualBoot#Resizing%20partitions%20with%20Windows%20Vista
>>
>> To shrink the Vista partition to give Ubuntu enough room.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Skip
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