How to shrink a windows partition to make more room for Linux?

[gk]

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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