Last weekend I helped out at an installfest, and as expected, people came with only one NTFS partition with XP on it.

I had never used qtparted before, and was not sure it would work considering the "can't write to NTFS" linux issue.

But I gave it a go on 2 machines, the first worked perfectly, and the second gave an error before starting becasue the disk wasn't defragged.

Now I'd still back up the hard disk before doing this, but it is nice to know that it works.