Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Monday 10 April 2006 00:21, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: >>Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >>> I just bought this thing, and have spent the evening doing a little >>> housecleaning and exploring using the deafult XP Home edition OS >>> thats on it, and trying to get used to the 'mouse' tablet as a >>> navigator tool and have a few questions. And please excuse me but >>> this is the first 'windoze' machine I've ever bought. >> >>I just did the same thing with a different HP Turion-based laptop >>(Compaq v5000z). The steps I took were: >> >>1) boot the stock os and run the defragmention tool. >>2) download the "gpartd" iso and burn onto cd/dvd. > > I got this far, downloading and burning the "System_Rescue_disk", which > contains a progam called run_qtparted on it. I used something that called itself "GPartd LiveCD". I wish I'd kept better notes of where I found it. It was the third day of dead-end experimentation and I had stopped keeping exact track of what I was doing. >>3) boot the gpartd dvd and reduce the first partition size to >> something much lower. > Booted ok, ran run_qtparted on a 1024x768 screen, and resized /dev/hda1 > down to about 25GB. Unforch, regardless of the size I leave /dev/hda1, > about 5 seconds after clicking OK, to (I assume) commit the changes to > the drive, it comes back with this message in a box: > > "Filesystem check failed! Totally 1 cluster accounting mismatches." I forgot about that error. Yes, I got it too and simply let ms-windows repair it. It was called chkdsk (or dskchk???) or something like that from a system pull-down menu. After selecting it, it failed because the FS was live and it needed a reboot so that it could check things on the way up before the FS was mounted. After that reboot it played with the disk a while and then it was all fine. -wolfgang
