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Since mom's stoke on Wednesday, the concern was that she's sleeping a lot. The origin of this concern was a comment from the ER doctor. It turns out that his comment was based on the initial brain scan which did not show swelling. Twenty four hours later, the second scan showed the swelling and extent of the damage. It wasn't until today, when my brother talked to the attending physician, that we learned that mom's sleeping is a good thing. She's resting until the swelling subsides. This is expected.

It's good news.

It's also frustrating to get small pieces of information that you try to understand without having the big picture. I understand that it will take time and I'm not expecting immediate answers. I'm just hoping to get enough pieces of the puzzle to interpret what's going on.

Tomorrow is another day... and hopefully we'll have another piece of the puzzle.

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Next, I went into Boot Camp Assistant where I deleted then created a larger Boot Camp Partition. I tried to make a 50 GB partition but it failed (screenshot 1). I kept trying smaller sized until I finally was able to create a 39 GB partition. Unfortunately, this won't allow me to upgrade to Windows 7 yet, but I wanted to complete the process to ensure this will work if I can free up some more space.

Using WinClone, I restored the Boot Camp partition but when I go to launch it in VMWare Fusion it give me an error about the partition table changing (screenshot #2).

I tried to import the Boot Camp partition but it says I don't have permission nor does it prompt me for credentials. Import was actually the wrong step.

I rebooted my system into Boot Camp and Vista started, ran chkdsk, then came up. When I logged in it said there was a problem loading my profile and a temporary profile was created. I shut it down and booted back into Snow Leopard.

I deleted the Boot Camp VM from the VMWare Fusion Library listing and the VMWare directory under my account's home directory: ~\Library\Application Support\VMWare Fusion\Virtual Machines\Boot Camp

I started VMWare Fusion, went to the Home screen on the Virtually Library Screen and selected Run Windows from your Boot Camp Partition. It came up with a dialog window saying it was preparing the partition, then booted up Vista. VMWare Tools installed as soon as I logged in, including a reboot when that finished.

Windows Vista boots up without a problem in Boot Camp. I'll probably import the Boot Camp partition into a standard Virtual Machine file to make it more portable since I rarely boot directly into Boot Camp. That will also provide me with the necessary space to install the Windows 7 upgrade.

     

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Resizing_the_Windows_Vista_Boo.zip (180 KB)

   

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Ive_been_home_2_days_and_final.zip (205 KB)

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