Dazed_75 wrote: > Interesting that I've had nothing but good luck with gparted with only > two exceptions: > 1-it is sometimes fussy about doing too many operations in a row so I > tend to apply changes without waiting to specify the whole chain of > changes I want to do, and > 2-it, like many other utilities, does not do as well at recovering a > flash drive by re-formatting as Windows does. Or should I say that > formatting one in windows seems to do something extra that windows cares > about? > > I have resized many NTFS partitions without resizing the NTFS file > system first. Perhaps that is because gparted actually requires and > uses the ntfsprogs to do that work. See: > http://gparted.sourceforge.net/features.php > > I believe Parted Magic (or one of the others) also announced a few > months ago that they now successfully resize the NTFS file system as > part of resizing the partition. I believe I posted that here back then. > > My belief is that gparted won't do what he wants simply BECAUSE the file > system and the partition are not in sync and that may be BECAUSE he did > the manual resize of the file system first and then ran a tool that > expected to do that itself. > I think Larry's right on the money here. (fwiw) -- -Eric 'shubes' > On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 3:43 PM, gk > wrote: > > > Ah, now we know. > > XP does NOT have its own resizer, only Vista and W7. > > BE warned if you resize an XP partition it takes hours and hours and > hours. So using a 3rd party resizer is necessary. I've never had > anything but problems with GParted, YMMV. Qtparted is good and there > are other 3rd party resizers available. > > Considering the time for a resize. IF you have your data backed up > AND you have the original XP discs, (we don't want ole bill to go > out of business; plus you have all your drivers. It's much easier to > nuke the partition and go from there. XP with office only needs > 5-6GB disc space. > > Note about primary partions and logical. You can ONLY have 4 primary > partitions at one time ever. You may have up to 256 logical. > > I'm betting that since your fsck is okay on Windows if you looked at > that partition there are IMMoveable blocks towards the end of the > space. This would also prevent a resize. > > > gk > > -- > Remember, it's not that we have something to hide; it's that we have > nothing to show. > > --Keep tunneling. > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > > -- > Dazed_75 a.k.a. Larry > > The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain > occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive. > - Thomas Jefferson > --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss