gparted can't resize a NTFS partition

[Stephen Kuhn]

On Mon, 2011-06-13 at 16:05 -0700, Dave Stevens wrote:
> 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

Does gParted give you an error?

Regardless, what you can do is to find/locate a wonderful tool called
"Hirens BootCD version 9.9" - not any of the later versions, but 9.9.
It's got partition tools, MBR tools, MS Windows registry tools - you
name it - and if the disk is not physically damaged, you'll be able to
not only resize the partition/disk, but possibly recover the crap that's
on it without much work - the Hiren's BootCD also has a liveWindowsXP on
it to allow you to do more stuff as well. I use this particular tool not
only for "here in the lab/workshop" but also for high-end forensic
stuff. It's a beaut.

Good luck mate - make money on it! ;)

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