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[Ray Parrish]

Lucio M Nicolosi wrote:
> Stephen wrote:
>   
>> Thanks for your reply.
>>
>> I downloaded a partitioner from the internet and burned it to disk and 
>> it worked fine. I started over again and I discovered that the reason 
>> that the computer took 45 at 88% was because I had inadvertently 
>> clicked on import user documents from windows. It was importing 90 
>> gigs of files from the windows "My Documents" area
>>
>> Thanks again;
>> Stephen
>>
>> Thanks for your feed back, I'm very happy it worked.
>>
>> Since you can read Windows formatted partitions from Linux, it is not 
>> mandatory to import all your personal data, just convenient, eventually. 
>> Since you have plenty of HD space, let your original OS remain available 
>> in the disk, just in case, while you get acquainted with Ubuntu. Since 
>> you already used Gparted, you know that you can mess with your disk at 
>> will (providing you have some kind of backup) and resize your partitions 
>> according to your needs (last time I messed with a NTFS I lost it).
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> L.
>>     
Hello,

 From personal experience I wanted to warn this new user about a small 
problem with the Gparted Live CD. When I first had Ubuntu, I decided to 
reallocate the space between Windows and Ubuntu,as Ubuntu had grabbed 
more than I wanted to give it at first.

I proceeded to boot from Gparted Live, and set the resizing of the 
partitions in motion. Then, while it was doing it's thing I became 
bored, and began exploring different things available on the Gparted 
interface since it was what was on my computer screen.

To my horror, when I clicked on one of the things on the screen, [I 
can't remember exactly what it was, as it was too long ago, but it was 
something to do with hiding something on the screen] the drive light 
stopped flickering, and the system froze up, right in the middle of 
resizing the partitions. The thought had not occurred to me that trying 
to change a user setting on a non-writable cd, which had no place to 
write the new setting to, would cause a problem, but it did! [which in 
retrospect makes perfect sense to me now]

I had to hard power down, and was lucky in that I only had to re-install 
Ubuntu to fix the problem. Take heed, while using the Gparted Live CD do 
not play with the interface settings available on the screen. I got 
lucky because the resize process hadn't gone very far before I caused 
the freeze up, I could have messed things up much worse.

I just thought I should warn you before you got around to resizing any 
partitions on your system.

Later, Ray Parrish

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