Re: Can't shrink Windows partition

On 2007-01-31, Ian Johnston <ian.groups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 17:17:01 +0000, Anthony Campbell wrote:

I've just acquired a Thinkpad Z61M and want to install Debian. If I want
to keep Windows I need to resize the partition it occupies, but I've
failed with the Debian netinst disk, Ubuntu, and Gparted.

When I needed to do this on my R403 - about two years ago, so this is
memory - I used Knoppix, ntfsresize and parted.

Ian

I tried with Knoppix and ntfsresize. It completed satifactorily but then
I came to grief. It said I had to delete and remake the partition with
cfdisk, which I did, using the correct file type, though it seemed an
odd idea. Windows would then no longer start. So I restored it, but then
it was using the whole disk again.

What exactly are you supposed to do *after+ running ntfsresize?

AC

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