Comments on: Adding a Linux partition to a Vista install http://neilmcallister.com/2007/06/19/adding-a-linux-partition-to-a-vista-install/ The homepage of Neil McAllister, San Francisco-based technology writer and illustrator. Fri, 05 Sep 2008 21:50:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Sphen http://neilmcallister.com/2007/06/19/adding-a-linux-partition-to-a-vista-install/#comment-371 Sphen Sun, 11 May 2008 08:22:57 +0000 http://neilmcallister.com/2007/06/19/adding-a-linux-partition-to-a-vista-install/#comment-371 Since Vista's partitioning tool didn't give me enough space for Fedora (just over 8 GB), I used gparted to up it to closer to 35. Windows did NOT like that. I've been having the same problem you described and have been searching all over for a way to make Vista work again. Thanks for the fix! Since Vista’s partitioning tool didn’t give me enough space for Fedora (just over 8 GB), I used gparted to up it to closer to 35. Windows did NOT like that. I’ve been having the same problem you described and have been searching all over for a way to make Vista work again. Thanks for the fix!

]]> By: Jase http://neilmcallister.com/2007/06/19/adding-a-linux-partition-to-a-vista-install/#comment-20 Jase Tue, 21 Aug 2007 10:01:37 +0000 http://neilmcallister.com/2007/06/19/adding-a-linux-partition-to-a-vista-install/#comment-20 FWIW, Vista has its own repartitioning tool. That's handy! Staff own their own laptops where I work, so to fit the corporate software set on their new Vista machines, we had to make them dual boot with XP. Best part was when XP wrote to the MBR, so Vista's EFI boot process was hijacked and we couldn't boot Vista. Grr... FWIW, Vista has its own repartitioning tool. That’s handy!

Staff own their own laptops where I work, so to fit the corporate software set on their new Vista machines, we had to make them dual boot with XP. Best part was when XP wrote to the MBR, so Vista’s EFI boot process was hijacked and we couldn’t boot Vista. Grr…

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