I have a Dell Inspiron 1500 series laptop with a full hdd. When I look at my drive though, the usable hdd space is ~1.7gb while the "recovery" side of the drive has ~6gb free. I've decided to try this:
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/using-gparted-to-resize-your-windows-vista-partition/
I found my Vista disk and booted from it to make sure it will work for the job. I made the live disk with the tool on it last night. I'm ready to go. I was just wondering how risky this is? It's the wife's computer and she'd be quite angry if a bunch of stuff got erased or something...as would I.
Any help appreciated! Thanks!
--Brent
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/using-gparted-to-resize-your-windows-vista-partition/
I found my Vista disk and booted from it to make sure it will work for the job. I made the live disk with the tool on it last night. I'm ready to go. I was just wondering how risky this is? It's the wife's computer and she'd be quite angry if a bunch of stuff got erased or something...as would I.
Any help appreciated! Thanks!
--Brent