Dual boot Ubuntu 8.04/Vista Partition Quandries

Short story:

I installed Ubuntu HH 8.04 on my lappy that had Vista on it.

I had two partitions:
Vista System partition ~75GB
Files Partition ~75GB
And perhaps a small "unallocated space or two (couple MBs)

After Ubuntu install I have
Vista System Partition ~49GB
Files Partition ~ 51GB
Ubuntu Partition ~26GB (with ~1GB swap)
3 "Unallocated" spaces (same 2 small ones)....one of them is ~25GB

Somehow 25GB of space were severed from my "FILES" partition. I can't figure out how this happened, as I never invoked such an action. Also, my FILES partition has the "boot" flag on it, and not my "VISTA" partition...and I tihnk because of this I am unable to "Resize" it in Gnome Partition Editor.

...is it as easy as moving the boot Flag elsewhere? Or is that a really stupid thing to do?

Bottom line, I want my 25GB back on my "FILES" partition.

P.S. When in Vista, I can grow/shrink my "Vista" partition but not my "FILES" partition (same as in GParted when I'm booted in Ubuntu).

 

You might want to use the GParted Live CD to try and fix your partitions instead of GParted in GNOME. That way, you won't have any problems with mounted filesystems. It's also better if you prepare the partitions before-hand and tell Ubuntu manually how to mount them.

You can get the GParted Live .iso here (sourceforge).
There's a nice review of it here.

Could you tell us exactly what you did with the installer? I don't have any experience with Ubuntu so I can't help you much in that regard, but there may be Ubuntu pros here who could use that information.

P.S. Messing with partitions is always dangerous. Make sure you're backed up.

 

Hey arch, thanks for the advice...I actually just fixed it with the Live CD, and everything is honky dorey.