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

559624 — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 14:48:38 -0000

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...

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

Ian — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 23:41:55 -0000

Gparted didn't break your NTFS partition.

Gparted sets a flag in NTFS partitions for Windows to check the disk after a resize. :)

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