gparted can't resize a NTFS partition

[Dave Stevens]

Quoting Stephen Kuhn <yank.down.under at gmx.com>:

> 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! ;)

Downloading it now, will let you know, thanks very much!

Dave

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