I know you have it done now, but one of the known issues with resizing Vista and Win7 partitions (even using their own disk management tool) is that they will not shrink past the restore point files or the pagefile.  You can temporarily turn them off, do the resize and then turn them back on.

Larry

On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Stephen <cryptworks@gmail.com> wrote:
yay!

On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 11:16 AM, Mark Phillips
<mark@phillipsmarketing.biz> wrote:
> I tried reducing the partition again from Windows, but it wouldn't let me. Even after a reboot and a disk defrag.
>
> I then booted gparted and resized the partition the way I wanted to.  Rebooting into windows forced a check disk process, but it completed without any errors and now windows runs in its tiny 40 GB space without any complaints.
>
> I performed a base install of debian and now I have a dual boot system with debian and windows. Except the realtek network card needs special drivers from realtek, so at this point I don't have a working network card on the debian side.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Mark
> Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile
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