Re: Best way to shrink Windows on new laptop?

On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 09:41:07PM +0000, Anthony Campbell wrote:
On 31 Jan 2007, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 04:15:25PM +0000, Anthony Campbell wrote:
On 31 Jan 2007, Anthony Campbell wrote:

I failed to resize the Windows partition (Windows XP) with both the
Debian installer disk and qparted. They appeared to work but at the end
the partition was still the same size.

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As I remember the process, you select the ntfs partition, resize it
(it will prompt you with the minimum size), wait wait wait, and then
you are presented with a new partitioning screen with lovely free
space. How did your experience differ?

A

Nothing at all seemed to happen with the Debian installer.

details here would help. my memory is that you select the partition,
and press enter (doing this from memory here...), select resize, enter
the size and away you go.

So I tried
with ntfsresize from Knoppix. This completed satisfactorily but the
partition was still the same size. It said I was next supposed to delete
and remake the partition with cfdisk, which I did. It was now the
correct size and type but Windows would no longer start.

yeah, probably the cfdisking confused its boot. what exactly happened
with the windows boot? nothing at all? or did it try to come up and
fail?

you are correct in that ntfsresize *just* resizes the file system and
not the partition. Knoppix includes other partitioners. I've used
qtparted with success. It will call ntfsresize as needed. you might
try that.


So I restored Windows from the restore compartment and it's working
again, but of course it's now occupying the whole disk as before.

I don't really understand how cfdisk is supposed to work with
ntfsresize. Perhaps I misunderstood the instructions. But I may have to
give up and just delete Windows completely.
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well this is obviously the best solution... ;-)

A

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