NTFS partition resized at last

[Charles Curley]

On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 10:46:27PM +0200, Nigel Henry wrote:
> Many thanks to Charles Curley for the links.

You are most welcome; that's what it's there for.


> The link to.http://gparted.sourceforge.net/ solved the problem. I
> downloaded the gparted live cd, version-0.2.5.5.iso.

Thanks for the referral to the live CD; I wasn't aware of it. I've
added a link to it with a credit to you.


> 
> XP for the the first time that I know runs CHKDSK (probably annoyed
> that it's file sysem has been messed with), then having accepted
> that it's ok, reboots, in the usual Windows style.

parted forces the check, so that's normal.

> 
> Well, all I can say is that Gparted has done the job. XP is now showing that 
> it's using 11.72GB of the 40GB drive, and all the rest is free space, and 
> certainly enough for a couple of Linux distro's.

Glad to hear it.

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