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exceeding lowered expectations

Dell reported to me when I ordered my machine that it would probably ship on or around Monday, June 13. You can imagine my surprise when I found it shipped on Wednesday—and it actually arrived in time for the weekend!

All silver linings have a cloud, though. The cloud in my case is the fact that Dell computers no longer come with an OS install CD. Instead, they have a "restore" partition that will re-image your hard drive. Fuck that—I want to be able to dual-boot. I called them up and talked to "Sam" (no, really, that's what he told me his name was), and convinced him to send me the system restore CD set.

I guess I can't worry about wiping and reinstalling until they get here, so in the meantime I'm going to "enjoy" my hot new Windows XP machine. My god Windows sucks my ass.

I'm not all complaints today, though. The NVidia 6800 is a beast of a video card, and this must be the most gorgeous display I've ever seen on any computer, period. This laptop is a fucking MONSTER, no doubt about it, but OMGSS!!1!one is it sexy.

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Gautham wrote

I was in the same situation as you, except IBM expected me to pay something like a $30 "shipping and handling" fee to get the restore CDs for my Thinkpad X40. Luckily, I managed to resize the Windows partition, move the restore partition, and have everything work, including IBM's crap-ass GUI "pre-desktop area" (Access IBM or whatever they call it).

Speaking of Dell, have you seen the commercial they have for the new XPS laptop? The think looks like a clunky piece of shit but the ad keeps raving about how great it looks. The ad involves some retard with a Thinkpad in a coffee shop who keeps trying to touch some other guy's XPS laptop. And I thought the target market was gamers...

repak wrote

resizing
What software did you use to resize the NTFS partition? Now that I've got Windows working reasonably well, I really don't want to install it again...

-repak

Gautham wrote

I used PartitionMagic. I had it lying around somewhere on a CD. Supposedly DiskDrake can resize NTFS partitions now as well, and I think Mandrake (or Mandriva or whatever the hell they're called now) has a LiveCD with DiskDrake on it. But I'm not sure how reliable it is. I've use PartitionMagic a lot and never had problems resizing NTFS partitions.

P.S. Apparently DiskDrake just uses ntfsresize, which is available as part of ntfstools. The manpage is pretty useful. I didn't realize the linux-ntfs project had made so much progress...

repak wrote

yup
Found ntfsresize immediately after posting my previous comment here. Apparently it's included in, e.g., Knoppix. See my next blog entry.

-repak

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