puneit
July 5th, 2008, 07:01 PM
Hello...
I have a very specific question regarding partitioning of hard-disk on a newly purchased Sony Vaio VGN-CR 363. The machine has a 250GB hard-disk with Windows Vista Home Premimum loaded on it. The machine also has a recovery partition which can be used to bring the C: drive into factory state.
You all know how Windows work. I have already experienced BSOD twice. Well, that's not the reason to dual boot to Ubuntu. I am an Ubuntu user and have been using it since Dapper. I need to have Windows for my portable hardware which is not supported in Ubuntu as of now.
Now, coming to my problem - I am not able to partition the disk using Vista built in partition editor (found in diskmgmt.msc). Have read that Partition magic will corrupt the OS since it is not compatible on Vista. So both are more or less uselss.
So, if I run partition the hard-disk using Gpartd say into 3 partitions and install Ubuntu in the second partiton. Now, I expect that at this point, Vista will not boot or function properly, due to loss of fragmented files. If, now, I run the recovery partition which will recover the C: drive to factory state, will it retain the partioning or remove it. Unfortunately the recovery doesn't have any option to partition the C: drive.
I know I can try this and see for myself, but recovering Vista and then Sony's software takes 1hr 45 min and loss of all customisation that I have done in last 2 weeks. I just want to know that will it work, the way I intend to do, so that my time is not wasted for nothing.
If not then I will have to live with Vista, which will be too sad...
I have a very specific question regarding partitioning of hard-disk on a newly purchased Sony Vaio VGN-CR 363. The machine has a 250GB hard-disk with Windows Vista Home Premimum loaded on it. The machine also has a recovery partition which can be used to bring the C: drive into factory state.
You all know how Windows work. I have already experienced BSOD twice. Well, that's not the reason to dual boot to Ubuntu. I am an Ubuntu user and have been using it since Dapper. I need to have Windows for my portable hardware which is not supported in Ubuntu as of now.
Now, coming to my problem - I am not able to partition the disk using Vista built in partition editor (found in diskmgmt.msc). Have read that Partition magic will corrupt the OS since it is not compatible on Vista. So both are more or less uselss.
So, if I run partition the hard-disk using Gpartd say into 3 partitions and install Ubuntu in the second partiton. Now, I expect that at this point, Vista will not boot or function properly, due to loss of fragmented files. If, now, I run the recovery partition which will recover the C: drive to factory state, will it retain the partioning or remove it. Unfortunately the recovery doesn't have any option to partition the C: drive.
I know I can try this and see for myself, but recovering Vista and then Sony's software takes 1hr 45 min and loss of all customisation that I have done in last 2 weeks. I just want to know that will it work, the way I intend to do, so that my time is not wasted for nothing.
If not then I will have to live with Vista, which will be too sad...