Re: [SLUG] Resizing NTFS Partition

From: Bob Foxworth (rfoxwor1@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Mon Jan 09 2006 - 05:31:23 EST


> 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.
>

I thought all Compaq's still come with this hidden data
partition that stores some kind of system info, and this is
invisible to the partitioning utilities

- Bob

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