gparted can't resize a NTFS partition

[Patton Echols]

On 06/13/2011 05:01 PM, Stephen Kuhn wrote:
> 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.

Interesting.  Why not any of the later versions?  I understand the 
concept of "newer isn't always better."  But what is missing from the 
later versions?