Changing Format

[webster72n]

Mine is a Dell Inspiron with WinVista Home Premium and SP1. factory
installed.
Drive C with 290 GB's contains the OS as an OEM version.
Drive D with 10 GB's is for recovery and all on one 300 GB. HD.
What can I do to, if anything, to repartition drive C into three new
partitions with about equal GB's?

Harry.

 

[ray]

Mine is a Dell Inspiron with WinVista Home Premium and SP1. factory
installed.
Drive C with 290 GB's contains the OS as an OEM version. Drive D with 10
GB's is for recovery and all on one 300 GB. HD. What can I do to, if
anything, to repartition drive C into three new partitions with about
equal GB's?

Harry.

One option would be to use the Gparted Live CD. Should handle things
quite nicely - simple GUI interface.

 

[Mike Hall - MVP]

Mine is a Dell Inspiron with WinVista Home Premium and SP1. factory
installed.
Drive C with 290 GB's contains the OS as an OEM version.
Drive D with 10 GB's is for recovery and all on one 300 GB. HD.
What can I do to, if anything, to repartition drive C into three new
partitions with about equal GB's?

Harry.

Use something like Acronis Disk Director. It will not be a waste of funds
because if ever you need to do a factory reset, you will need it again to
recreate your partitions..

 

[Tyro]

Why bother?

Tyro

 

[webster72n]

Why bother?

I would like to set up a VPC.

 

[Rick Rogers]

You don't need to repartition to create virtual pc installations. The VPC
program creates the virtual drives within the existing drive. When you
install the virtual operating system, it will treat the allotted space as a
blank (unformatted) drive and you can set up the appropriate file system for
the virtual pc, whether that be NTFS, FAT32, ext2/3, or whatever.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

 

[John Barnett MVP]

You certainly don't need a separate partition to use virtual machine
software. The VM software simply creates a file to store the new operating
system in on your current drive.

--
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[webster72n]

You certainly don't need a separate partition to use virtual machine
software. The VM software simply creates a file to store the new operating
system in on your current drive.

May I thank you, John, Rick Rogers and fibronacci number collectively for
your helpful comment, I wasn't aware of this simple fact.
Will I be able to install Ubuntu on the VM without causing problems for
Windows?

Harry.

 

[Malke]

May I thank you, John, Rick Rogers and fibronacci number collectively for
your helpful comment, I wasn't aware of this simple fact.
Will I be able to install Ubuntu on the VM without causing problems for
Windows?

Yes, of course. The virtual machine doesn't "know" it's running under a host
operating system (Vista in this case). This is the beauty of virtual
computing. You can run a different operating system without affecting the
host OS at all.

Malke

 

[CBoom]

Harry if you run the ubuntu cd (autorun) on vista, (or xp for that matter)
you will see an option to install Ubuntu on a physical disk without
repartitioning your drive!

What it does (via a program called WUBI) is to create a big file on your
disk, and in there (virtual hard disk) it keeps all the ubuntu data.
Then when your computer starts you select to start from ubuntu or vista in
a dual boot configuration.

When you don't like ubuntu any longer? you just uninstall it from your
add-remove programs from vista!

Why is this better than VPC or VMWARE? Ubuntu runs at FULL hardware speed
and you can use the video acceleration to get compiz effects.

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http://computerboom.blogspot.com

 

[webster72n]

Harry if you run the ubuntu cd (autorun) on vista, (or xp for that matter)
you will see an option to install Ubuntu on a physical disk without
repartitioning your drive!

What it does (via a program called WUBI) is to create a big file on your
disk, and in there (virtual hard disk) it keeps all the ubuntu data.
Then when your computer starts you select to start from ubuntu or vista in
a dual boot configuration.

When you don't like ubuntu any longer? you just uninstall it from your
add-remove programs from vista!

Why is this better than VPC or VMWARE? Ubuntu runs at FULL hardware speed
and you can use the video acceleration to get compiz effects.

This exeeds all of my expectations and it is just what the doctor ordered.
Thanks to all.

Harry.