The QTParted in Simply Mepis worked on a brand new Dell for me. ?I ended up deleting the "restore" partition later so I could have more primary partitions but the actual shrink worked. ?It might have given an error at the time it looked good after a reboot. ?NTFS sucks life, so YMMV.
If all you want is a backup of XP, try putting it on a newtwork device instead. ?I'm not sure how, but I know it can be done and it's better to have your backup on separate media. On Wednesday 12 October 2005 04:24 pm, Tim Hallin wrote: > I am using QTParted to shrink NTFS partitions on XP boxes so I can add an > ext3 partition to hold a XP image. I am yet to get QTParted to work. I have > tried it on Knoppix and the latest Ubuntu. It tells me there is a NTFS > Cluster error ? On brand new HP Computers ? I tried it on 12 different > computers over the last week. I have done all the standard Windows repair > stuff (chkdsk /f & defrag). > > Any help is appreciated. > > Tim Hallin
