Sup, PowerEdge?

Can anyone recommend a Linux LiveCD with Gparted, and which supports  
the PowerEdge 2800 with PERC 4, please?

What I've tried:

System Rescue CD 1.3.1 - recognises the disks, works great cloning one  
drive to another using `dd`, but the command-line `parted` refuses to  
resize NTFS, saying it's unsupported. System Rescue CD doesn't feature  
GParted.

GParted Live 0.4-6-1 (official GParted live CD) - boots to X windows,  
doesn't load GParted itself.

Knoppix 5.3.1 (2008-03) - fails to boot, giving an error whilst  
loading the kernel.

Knoppix 5.1.1 (2007-01) - works great, boots to desktop, GParted  
recognises the disks, but the version of GParted on this live CD is  
only 0.2.5.

This last version of GParted seems quite dated - it's a 2006 release  
on the GParted website - and I am reluctant to use it on the NTFS  
partition of Windows 2003 Server that I want to resize. This is a C:  
partition, and therefore can't be enlarged within Windows itself.

I'm downloading Knoppix V6.2 (2009-11-18) right now, but won't be able  
to try it for an hour or two, as it'll take me a little while to back  
up the current partition.

Any suggestions gratefully received,

Stroller.


PS: apologies if you receive this message twice. I originally posted  
13 hours ago, and it's not showing in the archives.

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