On Mon May 7 2007 5:34:31 pm Nat Gross wrote: > I shall give Gparted a try. I don't usually have the > oppurtunity to play with these. A bran new disk loaded with > Vista is prime candidate<g>. > In both my cases, I actually removed one of the mirrored drives, shrunk the remaining one from a 500GB single partition to 150 GB partition. I then inserted a fresh drive in the mirrored array, and rebuilt the array - so, I had a go-back in place should something go wrong. Once I booted into Windows, in both cases, Windows detected something changed/amiss, and wanted to do a disk check, which I allowed. Once I was up, I used the Windows diskmanagement utilities to create a second partition on the drive, of 350 GB, and formatted it. In one case, GPARTED detected some files on the part of the drive I wanted to free up, and it took a couple of hours to re-arrange things so all existing data was on the to-be shrunked part of the partitioned drive; the second time, it didn't require that, and it re-wrote the partition tables in a second or two. -- Claude Jones Brunswick, MD, USA
