Alan DuBoff wrote: > On Thu, 27 Dec 2007, Pawel Wojcik wrote: > > >> Is it safe to shrink M$ XP partition using Symantc's Partition Magic? >> I got the laptop with XP pre-installed and want to make room on the disk >> for Solaris and Fedora. There are many references on Internet to >> Partition Magic as THE tool to resize the disk partition where XP >> resides, but there are also not so good remarks about the quality of >> this operation. >> > > It should be. > > Partition Magic (8.0) that I've tried doesn't work on any of the Vista > systems, and those require some other utility on Vista which is included. > I have never had a system with Vista though. > > XP should be fine with Partition Magic. >
The latest GParted having ntfsprogs 1.3.1.1 is able to successfully resize Vista Partitions. I have tried it several times without problems. Vista's built-in utility has a limitation on how much it can resize due to system files at the end of the partition being in use. Regards, Moinak. _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
