gregkarr
October 10th, 2008, 03:09 AM
I posted earlier on a Vista forum about how to shrink the Vista partition since i want to dual boot Vista and Ubuntu. That post is here:
http://thevistaforums.com/index.php?showtopic=44464
The tip I got there was to use Gparted to shrink the Vista partition, and that is what I have done. The partitions I now ended up with are:
1: Boot(?), NTFS: My computer (Lenovo, Thinkpad W500) came with this partition preinstalled, and I have not modified it. Vista tells me that if I modify this the system won't be able to boot.
2: Vista, NTFS.
3: Ubuntu, ext3.
4: Linux swap.
5: Data, NTFS.
Gparted let me shrink the Vista partition and create 3, 4 and 5. The problem is that after doing that when I reboot, the drive letter for the Vista partition is E: and the drive letter for the Data partition is C:. With Vista not on C: it cannot start normally and only gives me a blank blue screen when I log in.
This poster seems to have found a solution:
http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/how-t...letter-on-vista
I have downloaded MBRWiz64, and made a Vista repair disk, but I still don't know whether this is a good way to proceed. If it is, how do I wipe the first 63 sectors of the disk? Using MBRWiz64? (I tried to use MBRWiz64 to set the Vista partition as active, but on restart I just got the message "Bootmgr not found".) If I do this, is it safe to assume the Vista repair disk correctly assigns drive letters afterwards?
Or maybe I should do something else? Like use MBRWiz64 to somehow edit the MBR and thereby change the drive letters?
A couple of notes:
1. There is nothing important on my harddrive.
2. I don't have a Vista install dvd, only recovery and repair dvds/cds, so I *can* reinstall, but that would bring my computer back to the factory install which means I'd have to go through the partitioning all over again and probably would face the same problem.
3. I have *not* installed Ubuntu yet, only prepared the partitions. Maybe it's easier to take care of this problem after getting Ubuntu up and running?
Any help is much appreciated. Thanks for reading!
http://thevistaforums.com/index.php?showtopic=44464
The tip I got there was to use Gparted to shrink the Vista partition, and that is what I have done. The partitions I now ended up with are:
1: Boot(?), NTFS: My computer (Lenovo, Thinkpad W500) came with this partition preinstalled, and I have not modified it. Vista tells me that if I modify this the system won't be able to boot.
2: Vista, NTFS.
3: Ubuntu, ext3.
4: Linux swap.
5: Data, NTFS.
Gparted let me shrink the Vista partition and create 3, 4 and 5. The problem is that after doing that when I reboot, the drive letter for the Vista partition is E: and the drive letter for the Data partition is C:. With Vista not on C: it cannot start normally and only gives me a blank blue screen when I log in.
This poster seems to have found a solution:
http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/how-t...letter-on-vista
I have downloaded MBRWiz64, and made a Vista repair disk, but I still don't know whether this is a good way to proceed. If it is, how do I wipe the first 63 sectors of the disk? Using MBRWiz64? (I tried to use MBRWiz64 to set the Vista partition as active, but on restart I just got the message "Bootmgr not found".) If I do this, is it safe to assume the Vista repair disk correctly assigns drive letters afterwards?
Or maybe I should do something else? Like use MBRWiz64 to somehow edit the MBR and thereby change the drive letters?
A couple of notes:
1. There is nothing important on my harddrive.
2. I don't have a Vista install dvd, only recovery and repair dvds/cds, so I *can* reinstall, but that would bring my computer back to the factory install which means I'd have to go through the partitioning all over again and probably would face the same problem.
3. I have *not* installed Ubuntu yet, only prepared the partitions. Maybe it's easier to take care of this problem after getting Ubuntu up and running?
Any help is much appreciated. Thanks for reading!