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    Help: Partitioning Disk C

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by wngmv, Oct 4, 2008.

  1. wngmv

    wngmv Notebook Enthusiast

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    My T400 comes with Vista Business and a HD C of 130G. I would like to repartition it into 3 disks. With disk management I was able to shrink 40G out of it. Further trying gparted usb mode just didn't work. The boot system said it wasn't an valid (or whatever) booting system.

    Without losing the current data on C and partition S and Q, what other choice do I have? Downloading the iso? Do I need the Vista recovery disk? Is there a harddisk version that I could use? I'm really troubled by this, working into 3 am.... How did you solve this problem??

    Any help is greatly appreciated. FYI: I have backed up the original harddisk. Copied files from C:\SWtools.

    Thanks a lot!!
     
    wngmv, Oct 4, 2008
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    tzcomwiz Notebook Enthusiast

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    ^Gparted live USB worked for me. You have to follow the instructions step by step, did you make the USB bootable?
     
    tzcomwiz, Oct 4, 2008
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    wngmv Notebook Enthusiast

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    I did, by both ways, but it wasn't bootable...

    Should I try to boot from a usb harddisk?
     
    wngmv, Oct 4, 2008
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