On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 7:11 AM, Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko at gmail.com> wrote: > On Tuesday 31 January 2012 05:34:21 Larry Martell wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 10:15 PM, Arun Khan <knura9 at gmail.com> wrote: >> > On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 9:57 PM, Ken godee <ken at perfect-image.com> wrote: >> >> Maybe a little different answer than you're looking for.... >> >> >> >> But why not install VMware Workstation (free)? >> > >> > The OP does not have admin rights to the Windows OS. I presume he >> > would need it to install any piece of software (I use Virtual Box). >> >> I can't even defrag the disk without admin rights :-( >> >> I'm going to make one more push to get admin, and if not, just go >> ahead and install CentOS and see what happens. > > Beware that resizing a Windows partition which has not been defrag'ed is a Bad > Idea, and works only if you are lucky enough that Windows didn't use the end- > portion of the partition. Maybe it will work on a freshly installed and not- > ever-seriously-used Windows, but it's a gamble. I've found that there is an automated defrag scheduled for 1:45am on Wednesdays. I probably won't be up then, but perhaps nothing will move around between then and the morning. > If it doesn't work, you're looking at data loss and corruption of the ntfs > partition (fixing of the latter may require you to have admin privileges...). > > If your Windows admin doesn't want to provide you with the privileges, why > don't you ask him to resize the partition for you? Yeah, I'm in a remote location (at home) and it's a huge company with centralized admin services and I'm working for a small division, but perhaps I can get them to remote in and do it. They're just not very responsive, so it's a slow process.