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What Windows version. If you have Vista, did you try the built-in resizing software. <http://www.vistarewired.com/2007/02/16/how-to-resize-a-partition-in-wind= ows-vista> Also, make sure you defrag the Windows partition before resizing. Unlike the Linux file systems, Windows does not try to maintain a frag-free file system. On 06/22/2009 05:52 PM, Laura Conrad wrote: > I'm having an unexpected problem putting Linux on the new machine. I > need to resize the windows partition, and gparted (and whatever the > partitioner on the xubuntu 9.04 install disk is) won't do it. > > Whenever I run, it says, "The enclosing drive for the volume is > locked". =20 > > Without resizing, I can actually install xubuntu, but not much else. > > I've googled, and found lots of references to this problem, but so far > no solutions that work for me. > > The problem is possibly related to a problem I was having with > Windows -- when I tried to play a DVD, it would play for a couple of > minutes and then turn the computer off. I did this several times befor= e > I found the BIOS upgrade that fixed the problem. Whenever it happened,= > the next time I would boot windows it would tell me it hadn't shut down= > properly and did I want to go into safe mode. But it always worked fin= e > (as fine as windows ever does) when I just booted normally. =20 > > So does anyone have any idea how I can unlock the enclosing drive? Or > get some software to ignore the lock and let me resize the partition? > > =20 --=20 Jerry Feldman <gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org> Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846
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