I've run into this problem myself on several XP systems since 2003. It looks
like Windows places some immobile files out in the nether regions of the hard
drive to discourage resizing the partition. From what I can see you can
either bulldoze it flat and forget about running Windows or install a second
hard drive for Linux. This "feature" of NTFS is just another way Microsoft
shows how they can't play nice with anybody.
On Monday 07 May 2007 9:48 pm, Chuck Hast wrote:
> I purchased a machine today, it was preloaded with the usual MS OS... Has
> a 250G HD, so I figured rather than blow the mess away I would keep it for
> a couple of programs that I can run Windows on. I put my SuSE DVD in the
> machine and it checked it out and gave me the option of re-sizing the
> windows partition, all went well until I got to the point where it was to
> do so, it gave me a error and failed. Vista is using NTFS, I have resized
> NTFS with SuSE before, and never had this problem. Anyone run into this
> one?
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