You can use qtparted or ntfsresize to resize an NTFS partitions (Google for their home pages). They work well.
You can download them (check out because it depends on several packages), or just use a Knoppix 3.3 CD (which is very nice to have handy, BTW). Qtparted is self-explanatory. Just launch the Gui. It is just a front-end to ntfsresize.
Before using a resize utility, make sure to defrag the partition (it will refuse to resize if fragmented). Also, you might need to delete the hybernation file and the swap file (both are system & hidden) on the NTFS partition before resizing. The reason you need to delete those files is that the $%^# windows puts them at the end of the partition and they cannot be moved. It is safe to delete them - Windows will recreate them on the next reboot.
Hope this helps, Carlos-
Mike Mueller wrote:
I partitioned the hard disk on my laptop using DOS FDISK. I created a FAT32 partition about 6GB and formatted it. The remainder of the disk was left unpartitioned.
I popped in the Toshiba recovery disk and expected it to load into the small partition I created. Instead, the dang thing re-partitioned and re-formatted the disk into an NTFS partition and ran the Symantec Ghost restore program.
I think I am stuck with having to buy Partition Magic so I can reduce the NTFS partition so I can load GNU/Linux.
The NTFS partition is not well handled by non-Partition Magic re-partitioners. The recovery disk is not a real XP installer so I don't have options for re-installing.
Am I missing something?
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