I ran into a problem trying to resize an NTFS partition on a brand new Compaq
Presario that came preloaded with XP Home. Both Qparted and Partgui failed,
and the partion utility in YaST also failed. After some coaxing, YaST
returned an error message about there being data on the hard drive and to
defragment to push it all down to the one end of the drive. I had already run
Microsoft's defrag utility twice, and a third and fourth time didn't help.
The defragmentation utility didn't show anything out there at the higher
cylinder numbers. Right out of the box, the system had about a dozen
fragmented files, and the utility corrected it on the first run.
Is there some kind of NTFS weirdness I didn't consider that I need to work
around? I installed SuSE 9 on my work computer a year ago, and a defrag was
all I needed before resizing the NTFS partition on that XP Pro system to make
room. I installed Knoppix on her old bargain-basement Acer when her Win 98
went bluescreen a couple years ago, and she wants to stay with Linux and KDE
for anything that touches the Internet and go dual-boot. No media came with
the Compaq, so bulldozing everything flat and reinstalling Windows XP Home on
a repartitioned drive is not an option, and I'd rather not buy a second hard
drive.
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