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Old 07-13-2010
Consolidating Freespace to allow shrinking partition?
i have an "old" laptop with 84gb used space, 203gb free, running 32bit Windows Vista.

i've tried all defragmenting programs i could find and though some offer Free Space Defrag, they don't seem to take into account where on the disk to consolidates the space to.

what i am trying to achieve is free up the end of the hard drive so that the partition can be shrunk to allow an installation of linux for dual booting.

what i am trying to avoid is using a Guided format in the center of the Windows partition.
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Old 07-13-2010
Using GParted to Resize Your Windows Vista Partition - How-To Geek
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Old 07-13-2010
could this be done using a liveCD and what are the danger(s) of using ubuntu to manipulate a windows partition, may i ask?
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Old 07-13-2010
GParted is a live CD system and works like a charm (provided you're read the docs before using it ...).
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Old 07-13-2010
okay i read up on that and its intended for dual booting vista/7 with xp

i'm trying to dual boot vista with ubuntu. does that make a difference? why or why not?
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