On Thursday 13 April 2006 01:07, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: >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 Now I've temporarily given up again, all 4 partitions on the disk are primary's so theres still no room to install FC5 even wth 60GB free. So now I have to kill the hidden backups & windows swap partitions and depend totally on the 3 dvd backups I've made. I'm getting bad vibs about that. Can someone offer encouragement? -- Cheers, Gene People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word 'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
