Buy a partition commander bootable CD and resize what you want.

You may need to boot the live CD afterwards and edit the Grub boot
menu.  I cannot remember if Partition Commander went in and updated
Grub.


On Nov 12, 7:40 am, Serjofpower <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On this note, I'm trying to give some of the free space on my NTFS
> partition to my Ubuntu ext3 partition and can't figure it out.  With
> gparted, I only have the option to format the partition.
>
> Here's a screenshot of what my partitioning looks 
> like:http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/4GCl-te5MkzI21riH0KHhQ
>
> I have Vista installed on my NTFS partition and would like to keep it
> and avoid destroying it and re-installing windows if possible.  Is it
> possible to do this with Gparted or possibly another utility?  And if
> so, what is the potential for data loss?
>
> Thanks,
>
> David
>
> On Nov 9, 4:26 pm, Janaka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Yes you will need to unmount before any patitioning can be done.
> > Furthermore I recommend Defragmenting your NTFS partitions before you
> > resize them.
>
> > On Nov 9, 12:59 am, paul watt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > Hi,
> > > I want to resize my windows partition using gparted, but when i select
> > > the ntfs partition, all the resize options are greyed out. do i need to
> > > unmount the partition first or something?
> > > TIA
> > > paul
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