Resize with QTparted....

[rrfish72]

Is it possible to resize a windows partition that is ntfs and use some of the empty space for a linux hd install? I have an 80 gig hd with a 4.5GB recovery partition and want to know if I can resize it to 35GB and use the remaining space for a linux hd install. Can this be done with QTparted from the live cd or from cfdisk from the live cd?

[jamierytlewski]

We did it here at school and everything worked fine. What I did was System Rescue CD, since it had all the latest versions of QTParted and NTFS Resizer.

The only thing was when the computer rebooted, it wanted to perform a disk check, which is understood because the OS is looking for x amount of data and now there is y amount.

http://mlf.linux.rulez.org/mlf/ezaz/ntfsresize.html

Great Page!

[rrfish72]

I used the mandrake 10.1 community installer to help me resize my XP partition with no side effects.