TheVegen
May 28th, 2011, 04:36 AM
I recently did a duel boot system with 30 gigs for Windows 7 and 30 gigs for Ubuntu and about 500 gigis of shared drive space.
I moved over the windows user folder to the shared partition but left the program files on the main one. I quickly found out after installing MS office that I need to make that partition 40 gigs but when I used windows to take from the spare partition and move to windows ubuntu died. Now this was the second time I tried repartitioning with bad results. The first time I tried to install ubuntu rather than formatting and starting from scratch I had used ubuntu to shrink my windows partition the first time and that killed windows.
Needless to say I think I should just avoid repartitioning but that is easier said than done with a duel boot system.
So my question is if I have to resize a partition again how can I do it without destroying windows and or ubuntu?
Thanks
I moved over the windows user folder to the shared partition but left the program files on the main one. I quickly found out after installing MS office that I need to make that partition 40 gigs but when I used windows to take from the spare partition and move to windows ubuntu died. Now this was the second time I tried repartitioning with bad results. The first time I tried to install ubuntu rather than formatting and starting from scratch I had used ubuntu to shrink my windows partition the first time and that killed windows.
Needless to say I think I should just avoid repartitioning but that is easier said than done with a duel boot system.
So my question is if I have to resize a partition again how can I do it without destroying windows and or ubuntu?
Thanks