shrinking NTFS partitions on Windows laptop

[Bob Barrett]

Antonio Olivares wrote:
> --- On Thu, 1/15/09, Paul W. Frields <stickster at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> From: Paul W. Frields <stickster at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: shrinking NTFS partitions on Windows laptop
>> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
>> Date: Thursday, January 15, 2009, 1:48 PM
>> On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 12:55:37PM -0800, Aldo Foot wrote:
>>     
>>> On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Paul W. Frields
>>>       
>> <stickster at gmail.com> wrote:
>>     
>>>> Does Windows include a tool that lets you shrink
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>> the system partition
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>>>> on an installed box?  I know you can't do it
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>> while running off that
>>     
>>>> system, but what about something on their
>>>>         
>> installation disc?
>>     
>>> Windows has no such tool. You can only delete, create
>>>       
>> or format
>>     
>>> partitions during
>>> install. Then later when the OS is running you have to
>>>       
>> delete partitions if you
>>     
>>> want to change their size.
>>> GParted live CD has worked well for me when resizing
>>>       
>> NTFS filesystems.
>>
>> Wow.  I'm scratching my head over that one.  So in any
>> case, it's nice
>> that the Fedora installer doesn't require you to use a
>> further live CD
>> to do this, but freedom's a good thing regardless.
>>
>> -- 
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>
> It depends on the version of Windows.  Windows Vista does have the ability to resize partitions on the fly.  Still I see no one has mentioned/suggeste3d that the drive be defragmented so that it can be resized without problems. 
>
> Regards,
>
> Antonio
>   
On Apr 19, 2007, I bought a new HP dv9225. It had Vista Ultimate on a
160GB hard drive. I wanted to shrink the partition. I had not used
Vista before and while poking around I ran across Control Panel ->
System and Maintenance -> Administrative Tools -> Computer Management.
I chose Storage, then Disk Management. It volunteered to reduce the
partition to 24GB. I accepted.

This took place while running Vista. No third party software required.
I then installed Fedora and have not had any problems.

Bob Barrett