Quote Originally Posted by rwcitek
Quote Originally Posted by Markus
Qtparted on the cd can be used to resize ntfs but it is often buggy so several defrags and backuping is recommended.
Buggy? Yes, Windows will run chkdsk on the next boot, but that's about it. I've used qtparted many, many times and have not had any issues. But if you have, I'm curious to know about it.

Regards,
- Robert
http://www.cwelug.org/
Two months ago in May, a gal at my lug, lilug.org, had used qtparted to resize a NTFS partition. I did not see the results first hand but I did hear about it first hand. qtparted ran into some error about halfway through the resize and b0rked the NTFS partition. It boot windows to a bluescreen STOP error and was unable to mount it in Knoppix. Lucky for her, she had backed up all the important documents & homework to another PC so all she lost was an existing windows installation. Whenever NTFS resizing is mentioned & since I don't know the skill level of people reading my words, I tend to follow through with a warning.

Use this at your own risk. There is ALWAYS some risk of losing data. Please ALWAYS make sure that you have a working backup of your important data prior to experimenting with ANY new software, no matter if is Windows, Linux, Mac OS or anything else.
That said, I personally have had no errors or problems with qtparted & ntfsresize.