Did you defrag the NTFS partition before you tried this ?
On Nov 13, 2:12 am, "David Robinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hmmm, I went ahead and ran the live cd (it had 8.04 on it) and at the
> partitioning section chose to reduce the NTFS volume by 50GB. It worked
> away for 20 minutes or so (progress bar stayed at 0% the whole time) and
> finally gave me an error message - something along the lines of "could not
> complete operation." Luckily no data appears to have been lost in the
> process.
>
> Does anybody know of another partitioning utility that could safely help me
> redistribute the space on my NTFS partition to my ext3 partition?
>
> Thanks for the help :)
>
> On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 6:48 AM, Christopher Stamper <
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> > On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 8:44 AM, David Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
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> >> I unmounted it, yes. It's installed on my hard drive, not a live CD.
>
> > Running it off a live CD should do the trick. Just make sure both volumes
> > are unmounted.
>
> > I think the 7.04 Live cd had GParted pre-installed.....
>
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