Also, be aware that it may take a long time (hours) to resize your NTFS partition if you have a lot of file frags that need to be moved, at least in my experience. I've used systemrescuecd.org successfully.
On 4/13/05, Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (Also sent privately earlier because of reply-to header.) > > On Wednesday 13 April 2005 22:26, Atanas Atanasov wrote: > > I have a 40gb hard with just 1 partition on it - NTFS. I want to make > > it just 10gb (the data on it is about 5gb). I read that knoppix and > > then qtparted should help. But unfortunately it cannot do my job. > > Qtparted stucks when comes for resizing, the window just halts kind of > > and nothing continues. But I still need to safe the WinXP on the > > primary NTFS. > > You could try the Debian Installer [1]. This also has support for NTFS > partition resizing. Make sure that the NTFS partition is "clean" before > you boot the CD (i.e. run scandisk within Windows). > > I would suggest you use the RC3 netinst CD image. > > The manual that is linked from the same page has some info on the subject. > > [1] http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ > > Cheers, > FJP > > >
