I suggest booting from CD, having NTFS resize then doing the real installation on the hard disk.
But I'm not sure that Knoppix / SuSe has NTFS resize option on the CD.
Eli Billauer wrote:
Hello all.
I have a nasty problem with my newly bought Presario 2121EA Laptop. Well, the problem is really with XP. But on a laptop, a reinstall of XP doesn't sound like much fun.
The thingy came with a 18GB hard disk, in one partition of NTFS. I want to resize it to 5 GB (this is the Linux context, right?). I can't, because there is data stored above the cutting point, even though there is plenty of free space. The MS defrag doesn't do this, because there is a nice, unfragmented chunk in the middle of the hard disk. It just says, "your disk doens't need defragmentation", which I translate to "your computer doesn't need Linux".
No piece of the chunk is "unmovable". I've already killed virtual memory, hibernation and System backup. It's all plain files out there. I think.
I've seen several programs that offer defrag, but all that I've seen are merely a front end to the built-in command-line defrag, which gives me exactly the same annoying answer. (Haven't checked Norton nor Partition Magic yet)
I've tried to move files (copy, rename, delete old), but it seems like the chunk I have is the "Windows" directory itself. I think it's because the laptop installed itself from the hard disk I'm quite surprised that I haven't crashed the system with all this playing.
Does anyone have an idea? Except for my own problem-solving, this is expected an issue on insta-parties. People will come with defragged hard partitions that you can't resize.
You can tell me to reinstall XP (which I will soon), but that's because the computer is fresh.
So, fellows, who knows what to do?
Thanks in advance, Eli
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