School Project; please read

[John Bowden]

On Tuesday 16 October 2007 22:22:55 H.S. wrote:
> 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

I think I saw a gparted bootable cd version a few weeks ago, about a 2/300Mb 
ISO down load. It also has a few other utilities on it, as well as mouse 
support. Xp and vista do come with their own disk management tools built in. 
I think w2k has as well. I generally use partition magic on my two windoz 
boxes, (All the rest run Linux now). 
I DO recommend emptying the trash can, IE catch and then do a defrag before 
shrinking any windoz partition.

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