Hi Szaka, Thanks a lot for your response!
On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 01:57 +0300, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote: > Hi Andree, > > On Sun, 5 Nov 2006, Andree Leidenfrost wrote: > > > I have made a Vista partition 1MB smaller as per your instructions. I > > can confirm that Vista does not boot anymore after this. Rather it hangs > > on the black screen with the 'golden' progress bar with 'C 2006 > > Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.' written underneath. > > Thank you for testing! > > Btw, it would be nice to know if this is valid only for boot or also for > data partitions? Ok, I've reinstalled and created a 10GB E: drive in Vista after that. Surprisingly enough (at least to me), after reducing the size by 1MB following your original instructions, Vista does not boot anymore either. :-( > So, it seems we should plan and implement denial of the resizing for > Vista, asap. This is not so bad, because Vista started to include a > non-destructive resizer. As a Debian developer, i.e. looking at things from a distribution angle, I am somewhat more concerned: Installing Linux on a PC should be as easy as possible. To this date, ntfsresize has done an excellent job in resizing an NTFS partition 'on the fly' as part of the Linux installation process. It would be really sad to not have this functionality anymore. > Frans, how do you detect Vista? My idea is to check for the transactional > directory. However this won't be enabled by default, so it may not exist > at all. > > > I have tested this with Vista Pre-RC1, Build 5536 using ntfsresize 1.3.1 > > I checked for the latest Vista beta, which is RC2 Build 5744 currently. So > we still have hope that Microsoft has fixed this serious problem. I somewhat doubt that MS views this as a serious problem. I'd even suspect they might have changed something on purpose to make it harder for us to get this to work. (Then again I may be getting paranoid...) > It also seems that only the members of the beta testing programme can > submit bug reports. > > Szaka Best regards, Andree -- Andree Leidenfrost @ Debian Developer Sydney - Australia
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