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Old 10-07-2008   #11 (permalink)
Bob Taylor
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Re: Disk Manager not allowing me to shrink partition...

coolgamer512 wrote:
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> It perfectly allows you to shrink a partition, although I wouldn't trust it.
> It almost killed my hard drive.
How does one get that space back? For instance I shrunk the main volume
by 10GiB on my laptop to allow for a Linux OS. If I choose to dump
Linux will the main volume then absorb the space again? I'm obviously
not very Vista savvy so thanks.

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Old 10-08-2008   #12 (permalink)
Roberto le Cornielle
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Re: Disk Manager not allowing me to shrink partition...

D/L Bootit ng from Terrabyte it will allow you to do what you
want and more.
http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/boo...generation.htm

rgds
Roberto


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> coolgamer512 wrote:
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>> It perfectly allows you to shrink a partition, although I wouldn't trust
>> it. It almost killed my hard drive.
>
> How does one get that space back? For instance I shrunk the main volume
> by 10GiB on my laptop to allow for a Linux OS. If I choose to dump Linux
> will the main volume then absorb the space again? I'm obviously not very
> Vista savvy so thanks.
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