gparted can't resize a NTFS partition

[Dave Stevens]

I have a borked windows laptop that can't boot. The HD is 150G about half in 
use. I'd like to resize sda1 from 139G to something small enough so I can load 
U10.10 and give the owner access to the windows files for backup. Gparted 
displays both the current and minimum sizes as the same. The filesystem checks 
out ok according to Palimpsest.

Anyone have an idea on this one?

Dave

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