[ale] partitioning XP disk with parted

[James P. Kinney III]

The tool you are looking for is ntfsresize. Somewhere in my system I
have a statically compiled version that fits onto a floppy. 

The process goes like this:

Defrag the disk with windows tools.
Boot system with Knoppix,
run fdisk -l  to get the current hard drive data. WRITE IT ALL DOWN!!!
use ntfsresize to change the size of the ntfs partition.
Then delete the entire partition with the knoppix booted fdisk.
Recreate the ntfs partition with the exact same starting point as the
original but the new end point as determined using ntfsresize.
Reboot back to windows and let the chdsk run.
Reboot back with knoppix and create the new linux space in the now empty
space or boot with your favorite distro installers and let it handle it.

Here's a link to a boot floppy with ntfsresize:
http://linux-tablet-pc.dhs.org/booter-144.raw

and a link to the ntfsresize page (which is down at the moment):
http://mlf.linux.rulez.org/mlf/ezaz/ntfsresize.html

On Wed, 2004-05-12 at 20:18, Jim Philips wrote:
> I'm trying to partition a disk on a new computer. Under Disk Management 
> in XP, I see two existing partitions:
> 
> C: NTFS
> D: FAT32
> 
> "D" is a rescue partition and only covers 5 gigs. I tried setting up a 
> partition with parted, but it failed saying it can't have a "partition 
> off disk". So, I can't even get parted to print out a partition table. 
> This is a new HP Pavilion. Does anybody have any idea what is going on 
> here? I can't install Linux unless I can partition this sucker.
> 
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