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This is how I dual. (aka. The Way I Dual Booted to XP on a Vista machine)

Started by theNiteTech · 10 months ago

Ok so I took some short cuts.  I wouldn’t say this is the best way to do this but I was desperate so I didn’t care too much.  Besides it all worked out in the end.I wanted to dual boot to XP so I could play games.  I get about 10-15 frames per second better [ ... Continue reading »

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  • Gparted didn't break your NTFS partition.

    Gparted sets a flag in NTFS partitions for Windows to check the disk after a resize. :)
  • You are of course correct. I didn't mean to imply that Gparted in anyway broke anything. My main complaint, if there is one, is that Vista positions certain "immovable system files" that limit the amount one can shrink a partition. Gparted can get around this issue.

    After using Gparted the partition itself was still intact but, and I'm guessing here, Gparted probably moved those immovable system files around to make more room to shrink the Vista partition. When that happened Vista got confused on the first reboot and ran it's Startup Recovery which does some magic voodoo and moved those files (like the pagefile) back to where it expected it within the partition. Then on the next reboot the Gparted check disk flag kicked off and found no errors I might add.

    Gparted is a great utility and does an amazing job. Sorry if I implied anything else.

    For more information on "immovable system files" see: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/wo...

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