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 <gm5729@gmail.com
> <mailto:gm5729@gmail.com>> 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
>
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