Re: How to resize 60-gig ntfs partition to install dual-boot…

On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 16:54 -0700, Josef Lowder wrote:
> I'm trying to install Mandriva into a dual boot setup on a new HP laptop
> on which win-xp has taken the entire 60-gig drive and won't allow resizing.
> Is there some way around this?
>
> I see:
> ntfs resize failed
> ntfs resize v1.11.2
> NTFS volume version 3.1
> current volume size 60,003,381760 bytes - 60004 MB
> followed by a long list of incremental percentages.
>
> If possible, I'd like to avoid reformatting the entire hard drive
> and deleting XP entirely.
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you might want to defragment the partition first to make sure that there
isn't data spread out all over and try again.

Craig

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