On 31 Jan 2007, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 04:15:25PM +0000, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > On 31 Jan 2007, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > > I failed to resize the Windows partition (Windows XP) with both the > > Debian installer disk and qparted. They appeared to work but at the end > > the partition was still the same size. > > what exactly did it say? I've done this twice now very recently (using > both sarge and etch installers) with 0 problems. It resized the > partition smooth as could be (though it takes a while). It used to be > that there were parts of the fs that were not moveable (swap files, > essentially) and you had to turn off windows virtual memory and maybe > do a defrag to get it to work, but I think those issues are all solved > now. > > As I remember the process, you select the ntfs partition, resize it > (it will prompt you with the minimum size), wait wait wait, and then > you are presented with a new partitioning screen with lovely free > space. How did your experience differ? > > A
Nothing at all seemed to happen with the Debian installer. So I tried with ntfsresize from Knoppix. This completed satisfactorily but the partition was still the same size. It said I was next supposed to delete and remake the partition with cfdisk, which I did. It was now the correct size and type but Windows would no longer start. So I restored Windows from the restore compartment and it's working again, but of course it's now occupying the whole disk as before. I don't really understand how cfdisk is supposed to work with ntfsresize. Perhaps I misunderstood the instructions. But I may have to give up and just delete Windows completely. AC -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone - Using Linux Gnu-Debian http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, on-line books and sceptical articles) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]