My friend bought an HP recently and I'm trying to partition for better organization and a second OS. Here is what I have tried so far and how it has failed.
- Partitoned drive with fdisk and then booted from the restore cd. The restore cd deletes all partitions and creates its own system with a small partition containing restore information and the rest as a huge main drive. There are no prompts are no options.
- Booting from the Gentoo SystemRescueCd and running QTparted. QTparted gives a warning about a non-standard mbr. I resize the ntfs partition and leave the remaining space unallocated. After the resize, QTparted shows the file system on the Windows partition to be Unknown. Upon restart I get a message saying that no operating system can be found.
- Called HP support. They sent me a cd allowing me to boot to the Recovery Console. They said that I should use diskpart to resize the partition. Wrong. Problem is that diskpart can only expand partitions.
So I'll have time to try again tonight. I was thinking that I would use QTparted to delete the restore partition and then resize the Windows partition so that it starts at the beginning of the drive where the restore partition once was. Then since I can now access the recovery console I would try running fixmbr and chkdsk. Any other ideas?
- Partitoned drive with fdisk and then booted from the restore cd. The restore cd deletes all partitions and creates its own system with a small partition containing restore information and the rest as a huge main drive. There are no prompts are no options.
- Booting from the Gentoo SystemRescueCd and running QTparted. QTparted gives a warning about a non-standard mbr. I resize the ntfs partition and leave the remaining space unallocated. After the resize, QTparted shows the file system on the Windows partition to be Unknown. Upon restart I get a message saying that no operating system can be found.
- Called HP support. They sent me a cd allowing me to boot to the Recovery Console. They said that I should use diskpart to resize the partition. Wrong. Problem is that diskpart can only expand partitions.
So I'll have time to try again tonight. I was thinking that I would use QTparted to delete the restore partition and then resize the Windows partition so that it starts at the beginning of the drive where the restore partition once was. Then since I can now access the recovery console I would try running fixmbr and chkdsk. Any other ideas?
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