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[hiroe.livejournal.com]

I fix medical equipment. X-ray, EKG, Pulmonary Function, Audiometrics, etc.

Problem:
As i'm the primary only in-house tech for the company, i'm on-call 24/365. And apparently the owner expects me to be able to resolve issues at the drop of a hat, even at 5 am. However, this is much more difficult to do when away from the office, as i don't have all my stuff and manuals handy.

Solution?
"If you want me to be able to resolve issues whenever they arise, you're going to provide me with the tools to do so." Namely, i swiped a laptop, with my boss being fully aware that i had done so.

I've also threatened that if he doesn't actually use it soon, i'm going to steal the flatscreen he had me repair.


Free is my favorite flavor of New Toys.




Incidentally, is there any free tool that will help me expand an NTFS partition to fill the remaining unpartitioned space on the c: drive?

Comments

[jeffreyatw.livejournal.com]

PartitionMagic is a paid program that does that.

There are some Linux tools like gparted, etc. that do it but I don't trust them with my NTFS partitions.

[jecook]

+1 on the Partition Magic. It's the only reason I keep my Corporate Multiboot CD handy anymore.

All you really need are the emergency recovery disks from it.

FWIW, it's something like $70 from Symantec, so it's really not all the expensive.

[gholam.livejournal.com]

If you convert to dynamic disk, XP can do it by itself.

[hiroe.livejournal.com]

but then it's not bootable.

[hiroe.livejournal.com]

Yes. ^___^

[valiskeogh.livejournal.com]

partition magic will do it :)

[eightofspades.livejournal.com]

Oh for c-xxxx sake. Just use GParted. It works fine, just can't move your beginning bit. Anyhow, you're worried, image the machine first.

Bahh.

[japester.livejournal.com]

If it's not the *active* partition (ie the one windows is currently booted off), the disk manager tool (of windows) will do it.
I just use QParted while booted off ultimate boot cd (http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/)
and make sure that checkdsk runs next time you reboot.

[ladydiana.livejournal.com]

I feel your pain. I work for a phone company, and regularly didn't have keys, cards, or combinations to get into some of our sites. Then, if I did, I didn't have the tools because I wasn't issued any and my boss persisted upon believing that all the sites had tools assigned to them (they don't - they're assigned to the TECHS, the rest of whom have company vehicles and take their tools WITH THEM.) Once I got that through to him, he told me to take the tools from another site, only that site didn't HAVE the tools I needed - which he insisted they did, because someone had left them there one day and he happened upon them.

Then there was the laptop, which initially I didn't have and then when I did get one, took TWO HOURS to boot up into Windows. (And took TWO MONTHS for IT to even acknowledge my trouble ticket so I could ship it in for repair).

His response to THAT? Be glad you have one at all. Um - yeah - but I CAN'T USE IT!

I was bordering on tears of sheer frustration for months.