[NTLUG:Discuss] hp dv9620us
Wayne Dahl
w.dahl4 at verizon.net
Fri Dec 28 01:41:47 CST 2007
Chris Cox wrote:
> Dennis Kaptain wrote:
>
>> I just bought a hp dv9620us laptop. As of this moment it is still sealed in the box unopened.
>>
>> I'd like to re-partition the drive and contain vista to maybe 20GB and use the remaining 220GB for Fedora 8.
>>
>
> Ok... 20G for Vista is NOTHING. You might as well get rid of it.
>
> While I certainly can't praise Linux enough, IT'S the one that doesn't
> require much disk space.
>
> Of course, it it was me... I'd just nuke all of Vista. But if you HAVE to dual
> boot, then you need to give Vista lots of space. Just my opinion. Otherwise,
> IMHO, you really don't need/want Vista.
>
>
Chris is right. I have this same laptop and used Vista's built in
partition shrinker. Using that utility, Vista itself took up around 36
Gigs and wanted another 36 Gigs of free space. So while I still have
Vista on this laptop (for now), Vista wanted 72 Gigs of drive space all
for it's bloated self. 72 Gigs. What a freakin' waste.
>> 1) best repartition the drive (I'm thinking gparted using a live disk)
>> and or
>>
>
> Make sure that you defragment NTFS under Vista before you do anything (might
> do this prior to step zero above). If it's not properly defragmented,
> an NTFS resize operation may fail.
>
> I haven't used gparted to do an NTFS resize. I'm usually installing
> openSUSE which handles this at install time.
>
>
I defragged the hard drive before I used the partition shrink utility.
Highly recommended if you ever want to be able to boot back into Vista.
>> 2) things to look out for during installation and setup?
>>
>
> Step zero above and the defrag thing.
>
> If you have access to a REAL Vista install CD (not the junk from
> HP), then I'd personally give the whole thing to Linux and
> run Vista using VMware or some other hypervisor VM thing.
>
Unfortunately, this isn't an option UNLESS you create the recovery CD
for HP. HP (most companies don't seem to be shipping real "Windows
Genuine Advantage" CD's (pun intended)) certainly doesn't ship a real M$ CD.
btw, with the holiday's, I haven't checked my email in a while. I'll
respond to your other posts later.
Wayne
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