CAUTION resizing M$ Vista partitions

[Eric "Shubes"]

Dazed_75 wrote:
> 
> 
> On 2/26/07, *Dazed_75* <lthielster at gmail.com
> <mailto:lthielster at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     <SNIP>
>     OK, that partition seems to be hosed.  I tried to mount it to copy
>     off a couple of files before reloading and mount gave me an error
>     saying the ftype was wrong or the superblock is corrupt.  It
>     suggests looking at dmesg which had 4 messages saying basicly that
>     the inode is corrupt and suggests running CHKDSK.  Of course I can't
>     do that either on an NTFS partition without windows :)
> 
>     Looks like I wipe it and re-install Vista, Office and Ubuntu instead
>     of playing tonight.
>     -- 
> 
>     Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't
>     matter and those who matter don't mind.  - Dr. Seuss 
> 
> 
> That worked.  BTW, I used the LiveCD and Qtparted to remove the extra
> partions and reformat the NTFS one before reinstalling Vista.  Seems
> Vista (at least the RC1 rendition) must do something different as I
> suspected.  Basicly letting a linux install resize the NTFS partition
> corrupted something Vista is doing with the MBR or boot sequence.  Not a
> big surprise and it is probably something they are doing under the guise
> of security.  Too bad they can't figure out how to do that without
> breaking things.
> 
> CAUTION: Be wary of resizing Vista partions !!!  Until someone
> understands this I won't say you can't but I will say be sure you have a
> restorable image.
> 
> -- 

Thanks for giving this a test, Larry.
I'm wondering if it's just an RC1 issue. I've become very leery of an RC
version of anything.

-- 
-Eric 'shubes'