The splash screen now looks like<div><br></div><div><a href="http://people.canonical.com/~cjwatson/tmp/ubuntu-boot-screen-new.png">http://people.canonical.com/~cjwatson/tmp/ubuntu-boot-screen-new.png</a></div><div><br></div>
<div><a href="http://people.canonical.com/~cjwatson/tmp/ubuntu-boot-screen-new.png"></a>The reason for using Win partitoner when it is available is that Windows can squeal like a scalded pig & require CHKDSK to run after using the ubuntu one (not always, but enough times for the advice to be use the win partitioner), this has an additional advantage that the OP ensures Win is still happy before putting ubuntu onto the 'free' area this not blaming Ubuntu for 'breaking' their Win installation.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Phill.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 10:11 PM, Phil Bull <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:philbull@gmail.com">philbull@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Hi Phill,<br>
<div class="im"><br>
On Wed, 2010-04-21 at 16:03 +0100, Phillip Whiteside wrote:<br>
> the screen-shot (figure 2) is now wrong (don't blame me, they altered<br>
> the boot screen at the last minute !!)<br>
<br>
</div>Thanks, nice catch. Do you happen to have an update screenshot, by any<br>
chance?<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> The thorny issue of resizing partitions, with Vista and Win7 the<br>
> general consensus on the forums seems to be to let windows to resize<br>
> the partitions rather than getting gparted to do<br>
> it. <a href="http://apcmag.com/how_to_dualboot_vista_with_linux_vista_installed_first.htm?page=2" target="_blank">apcmag.com/how_to_dualboot_vista_with_linux_vista_installed_first.htm?page=2</a> has the vista method, i understand it is the same for win7.<br>
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</div>I'd rather rely on the generally-available Ubuntu tools than the Windows<br>
ones (in case Windows can't boot, etc). Why do people recommend the<br>
Windows partitioning tools, are they having issues with the Ubuntu ones?<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
Thanks,<br>
<br>
Phil<br>
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Phil Bull<br>
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