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On 11/09/12 16:02, Henry Bremridge wrote: >> This and Steven's suggestions are mostly fine: you however do *not* want >> to perform partition resizing from within windows (it may not even be >> possible depending on the type of partition, i.e., dynamic vs simple >> volume) especially if you have one single boot volume (200Mb 'loader' >> partition + the rest of the disk as your NTFS data partition). >> Partitioning secondary or tertiary non-OS disks from within windows is >> fine however. >> >> You will be best served by obtaining the gparted live CD and booting >> from that to initially resize your windows partition. This will make >> windows panic initially after the resize operation and it will want to >> run a chkdisk on your first boot afterwards. > I once started trying to use Debian to repartition and to cut a long story > short I had to go through the whole process of windows updates and > reinstall programs, something I am trying to avoid a second time ;) > > Anyway will try this evening: getting work done in Windows is too time > consuming > A pro-tip for those of you who have to suffer with windows a lot - if you're frequently working on windows machines but don't have the time of effort required to set up a full WSUS environment (this requires a windows server install plus AD configuration, etc) then your new best friend is: http://download.wsusoffline.net/ Stick it on a (large) USB drive and update it frequently - this can even be done on a linux host machine. I promise it will save you many, many hours of staring in frustration at the endless repetition of check for updates/install updates/reboot/repeat that plagues windows. Regards -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq