Breezy & WinXP dual boot on Dell Dimension 8400 (SATA RAID)

[Sean Hammond]

> I've never tried to resize an NTFS partition w/ the installer tool.  I
> use Partition Magic to alter my partitions most often.  Their is a tool
> on the LiveCD (I'm pretty sure) under one of the menus called Qparted or
> QTparted.  You should be able to alter your partitions w/ that tool
> (I've used it to change Ext3's) from the LiveCD.  It also has the
> advantage of being able to do it immediately as your drive won't be
> mounted automatically w/ the LiveCD.



Thanks, I might try it that way. I did try resizing a Windows ntfs partition
once, I already had Ubuntu installed dual-booted, and parted (GParted I
think, the GNOME frontend) said it couldn't make partition changes to any
device that had any partitions mounted. Since Ubuntu and Windows were on the
same device, there was no way to resize any of the partitions. I think the
error message may have been wrong though, as I tried using the partition
tool from the Ubuntu LiveCD and it told me the same thing, even though no
partitions from the hard disk were mounted.

I will try again with this system and see what happens. I don't think
there's much chance of GParted actually breaking anything if it fails, as I
messed around with it failing quite a lot on this other machine and none of
the failures made any changes to any partitions.
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