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[H.S.]

Brian Fahrlander wrote:
> Robert Hodgins wrote:
> 
>> It "shouldn't" be a problem (gparted). Having said that, I have had some
>> problems resizing NTFS partitions, though. (Since I didn't really care
>> about Windows, I erased it and gave the whole drive to Linux.)
> 
>      Yeah, that's the part I've not tried; anyone had some exposure to 
> the gparted in real life?

I just used it a few weeks ago to repartition a hard disk on a laptop
with XP installed on it. As a precaution, I first defragged the disk
before I used gparted.

Further, I used System Rescue CD
(http://www.sysresccd.org/Download.en.php) for this. Booted with the CD,
started gparted and resized the partition. I am sure you can use an Live
CD which has gparted (and ntfs resize tool) in it.

Also, this may be of importance, I increased the partition of the
Windows partition. I haven't tried decreasing it, and that is what you
are looking for.

I think if it cannot decrease the partition size, it will tell you that.

Finally, installing a distro on the hard drive is going to give you best
performance! Having a sloooow GUI if run from a Live CD is going to
discourage your users to no limits.

Good luck though!
->HS