On Mon, 19 Dec 2005, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> You may find that it all works better if you boot into windows and turn off
> virtual memory. also maybe turn off system restore. In the past, those two
> items have written unmoveable blocks on the disk and prevent the partition
> from being properly resized. Its been a over a year now, though, so that may
> have changed. ymmv.
Anything is safely relocated if needed since the end of 2003.
Szaka
> Søren Christensen wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 03:51:51PM +0100, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote:
> >
> > > [Bero: please see my comments below about additional qtparted bugs]
> > >
> > > On Mon, 19 Dec 2005, [iso-8859-1] Søren Christensen wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > > I'm not able to change the size of the one partition containing Win
> > > > XP.
> > > >
> > > > Well, here is another clue: qtparted reports, that support for ntfs
> > > > filesystem is not implemented yet.
> > >
> > > This message is from libparted, not from qtparted. Qtparted is a frontend
> > > to several utilitites and libraries. Ntfs related things are done by utils
> > > from ntfsprogs via qtparted, not by libparted.
> > >
> > >
> > > > Trying to do a resize, it ends with the error-message: Filesystem check
> > > > failed! Totally 1 cluster accounting mismatches.
> > >
> > > This means that your NTFS was corrupted by the Windows driver. However
> > > qtparted doesn't show you the full ntfsresize diagnostic message which is:
> > >
> > > "This software has detected that your NTFS is corrupted. Please run chkdsk
> > > /f
> > > on Windows then reboot it TWICE! Important, don't forget the /f
> > > parameter!
> > > Afterwards you can run ntfsresize. No modification was made to NTFS."
> >
> >
> > Thank you very much for the precise information, I'll try that.
> >
> > > When the [Partitioning disks] screen appears do the following steps:
> > >
> > > 1. Choose the "Manually edit partition table" option.
> > > 2. Choose the NTFS partition you want to resize.
> > > 3. Choose the "Size:" line.
> > > 4. Choose <Yes> if you are asked about "Write changes to disk and
> > > resize the partition?".
> > > 5. Enter the new size.
> > > 6. Wait patiently until the resize process frees the needed space for
> > > installation.
> >
> >
> > I'll try parted first.
> >
> > /Severino
> >
> >
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