Topic: Could Linux help?

[sam]

Ubuntu is good so long as you don't want to operate a TV capture card.  Vista recognises it automatically and is simple to use.

I haven't re-partitioned my computer yet - it's a job for when I've got nothing else to do .

wasn't there a list of things posted not too long ago on how todo this? Maybe davy posted it? I don't recall.

I though you weren't trying to capture TV with this one  oh well. Soon you won't be able to use your capture card anyway. I guess? Or can it cope with freeview?

[davy51]

That sort of happened, but it created a new blank bit of drive which I then couldn't do anything with.  It called it un-something or other, can't remember now. 

That blank bit of drive is the free space created when you shrank D partition

it should allow you to resize the C partition to fill that space

click on the free space
then click edit at the bottom

a box should show up in that box is a drop down window

I cant see it but bet it says do not use this partition

try shrinking D partition by 1mb again

let it completely finish and refresh

And try to resize C partition by right clicking on the right side of it and drag it to fill the free space

If that doesnt work


Im gonna start screaming for sam

[Simon]

The only options the blank partition gave was 'New' when right clicking, then it complained that there were already a maximum of four partitions, and I couldn't have any more. It was fine, as they'd managed to save all they wanted anyway, so deleting D wasn't a problem. 

I then had another problem which turned out to be a dead router, and now it appears to be full of viruses, so I'm going to reinstall Windows, which it would have been easier to do in the first place.  After that, I never want to see the sodding machine again. 

[davy51]

If it was full of viruses not much else to do but reinstall easiest and fastest way

The way it sounds a complete reinstall was needed bad anyway

[Simon]

All of that said, I have to admit, I quite liked Puppy, and will probably experiment more with Linux CDs in the future. 

[sam]

Stick it on usb will be faster

[Simon]

Well, once I've got this other POS sorted out, I'll have more time to play. 

[davy51]

a whole new world of live cd's and dvd's out there

[Simon]