- #Gparted live usb shuts computer down install
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You then use Sysprep to 'roll back' the master system to an 'un-configured' state, after which you can 'image' the system and simply 'clone' it onto as many 'destination' computers as you wish.
#Gparted live usb shuts computer down install
Then you install any 'standard' software needed (and remove any XP system components that the employees "don't need" or are 'not allowed').
#Gparted live usb shuts computer down drivers
You start by installing Windows onto a 'reference' or master computer, adding any custom drivers etc. Thanks for sharing but your preaching to the choir.Sysprep is a utility from Microsoft that allows computer Manufacturers and Corporate IT staff to 'roll out' a 'pre-configured' Windows to their customers / employees computers. After restoring Win7 boot I resized the partition from Win7 to fill the disk. Although, after removing Ubuntu 9.10 and setting the Win7 partition as boot, I had to used the Win7 disk a couple of times to restore boot because it could not find bootldr. I did that on a Win7 laptop I had temporarily while setting it up for someone (I put grub2 on the primary Linux partition). Then you can use gparted to create you Linux partitions. I have also used gparted since then to resize WinXP ntfs partitions on several laptops without any issues.īut for Vista or Win7 it is recommended that you use Windows own admin tools to shrink partitions. After resizing and rebooting Windows (which will check the disk) you can re-enable virtual RAM.
But more recently when I first installed Ubuntu 9.04 (a week before 9.10 was released) by disabling WinXP virtual memory I could have shrunk the XP ntfs partition to the size of actual use, but I just freed up 66 GB for a couple of Linux versions and swap.
#Gparted live usb shuts computer down free
The first time I resized my 200 GB partition in 2004 I had not done that and could only free up about 24 GB. However, you should disable virtual memory first in WinXP first and reboot for that to take effect if you want the best chance at shrinking a partition to minimize immovable files. I have never had any problems resizing WinXP ntfs partitions with gparted. But saying that Gparted can't resize ntfs partitions is a flat out lie. Yes, unfortunately things can get messed up when using any partitioning tool, not just Gparted. But Gparted refused it because of the detected errors. According to you his computer would have been messed up already because a resize was tried. Read carefully again the first post of the OP, which you obviously didn't, where he/she clearly says that there is a triangle warning mark and Gparted doesn't even want to START resizing the partition. What are you talking about? I don't know what happened to you, but it doesn't help to lie to all people who will read this for help.
i thought it was as solid as partition-magic but i was wrong. I would not trust gparted on ntfs partitions. not fixable with gparted.Īll you can do is boot in windows and try it there. then it will hang up and you wont have access to your ntfs partition anymore. Why cant gparted just check the partition first and if there is a problem on the partition - send a warning and ask the user to cancel?Īs i can confirm gparted doesnt check for failures automatically and tries to resize ntfs partition. Then gpart has a mal-function or behaviour after detecting failures on partitions is bad implemented. The tool is not present in XP so your only choice is third party windows app, or Gparted or similar. However, because windows is picky, it's better to resize using windows Disk Management in vista or 7. Sometimes bad sectors do this, even when windows might ignore them. There is some error on the partition (which might not be serious at all) and simply Gparted doesn't want to touch it. The best and savest solution is to boot windows and resize the partitions from there. gparted might hang up and your partition is kinda lost then. especially not, if the windows parition is in ntfs file format.Īnd, booting gparted live from dvd, might let you move/mod your windows partition but i can ONLY WARN YOU: DONT DO IT. I think you wont have any chance to do it with gparted. I will post screenshots of the error message in the following hour. It seems to be locked, even though I am in root and I have every hard drive partition unmounted. GParted on the USB (GParted Environment) has the same problem as GParted in Ubuntu. GParted can't resize that partition (there is a triangular ! yellow warning sign, similar to this thread's icon, but yellow). When manually setting up partitions, I cannot resize the windows partition. I have tried to install Ubuntu 10.04 on a small laptop, but I get the problem that the installer wants to either:ġ) Partition my USB key and install it thereĢ) Install it on my drive and destroy the Windows PartitionĤ) Install it on my key and destroy everything on it.