How to resize 60-gig ntfs partition to install dual-boot Linux?

[Josef Lowder]

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. 

joe at actionline.com