Sorry for not replying earlier, but I've been too busy with the RC1 release of Debian Installer (and had to replace the hard disk in my laptop in the mean time too).
On Thursday 12 October 2006 12:05, Yuval Fledel wrote: > > I have today uploaded a version of partman-partitioning that includes > > a check for NTFS 3.1 partitions and refuses to resize in that case; > > earlier NTFS partitions (NT, XP, 2000) should still be resizable. > > XP use NTFS 3.1 too. You've just blocked resizing of most users' NTFS > partitions. Thanks for that info. I have added some additional logic so that now only Vista is blocked and resizing XP partitions still works. I've even tested that while re-installing my laptop :-) > > IMO #379628 should not be ignored for Etch and it would be nice if > > someone else would try to either reproduce the bug or prove me wrong. > > There is plenty of information in the BR for that. Without a working > > ntfsresize, resizing NTFS 3.1 partitions is a no-op anyway. > > I've done some web searching and I have a wild guess about pcmcia.sys. > > After resizing, please boot into Vista's install disk and into the > recovery console. From there, rename "system32\drivers\pcmcia.sys" > (e.g. to "pcmcia.bak") and reboot. Does Vista now boots? What about > Safe mode? I'm sorry, but I currently don't have the time to do relatively wild attempts like that. Especially not as I've already verified that the md5sums of all files in the NTFS partition are unchanged after the resize operation (as documented in the history of this bug report). Safe mode does not work either, it only shows roughly at what stage the boot hangs. > Another solution I found on the net was for Win2003 and was replacing > "ntldr" and "ntdetect.com" with the ones on the install disk. The best > projection on a newly installed Vista would be to replace the files > with files from Win2003 or XP. Does this solve the case? That is bogus as Vista no longer uses ntldr, but instead uses bootmgr. Cheers, FJP
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