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« Reply #15 on: August 23, 2011, 01:58:55 AM »
Have you tried Gparted ?

Yeah, I guess you have, just making sure
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« Reply #16 on: August 23, 2011, 02:01:47 AM »
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@Just i know i can lower the partition size within windows in disk management, but windows has annoyingly made an immovable file that makes it so i cant free up more than 290GB, which is quite a bit less than i want for my linux partition.

Rebooting Win several times after the resize, may/should allow it to be resized further.

What is the immovable file?  Swap space perhaps?  If so then this could be turned off ....  or at least could in previous versions of Win.

I would strongly suggest you reduce from within Win, do a few reboots, and see if further reduction is available, before resorting to a 3rd party tool.

BTW ..... 290GB seems a huge amount of space for PCLOS .....

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« Reply #17 on: August 23, 2011, 02:03:34 AM »
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VB for your Windows install?

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Don't know about win7 yet, but XP is rock-stable.
Will try win7 light ( dark edition  Cool Cool Cool ) next week, just for fun.
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« Reply #18 on: August 23, 2011, 02:11:26 AM »
OK, here is the link from the forum.
There was another, but maybe I am confused with another forum, like.......tu

http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,73649.msg604540.html#msg604540
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« Reply #19 on: August 28, 2011, 01:18:13 AM »
Assuming you have he Win7 key handy, in the event you destroy win7 you can dl the iso direct from the MS website..
that won't help your data at all. Also there is a backup utility in Win7 that will do you a complete image backup... Wink
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