I needed to be able to dual boot my laptop as the VPN client we use “Aventail” is only available for Windows and I would need to be able to log on from home when I am doing out of hours support. The Kubuntu Dapper install caters for this and offers to resize your Windows partition for you.
However when I tried that it failed saying it was unable to resize. I got a similar result when I tried a manual resize using the qtparted partition manager tool.
The reason was when that I had been using the laptop booted in Windows and surprise, surprise it had had some problems shutting down so I had to do a forced power off. This however left the NTFS partition in a non-clean state. As soon as I booted back into Windows and did a full shutdown then the installer resized the Windoww partition no problem. The moral of the story: First clean your Windows.
Thanks for posting this! I have tried QTParted several times(from Kubuntu LiveCD actually) and it failed for me as well. Now I know that the failure is probably due to my bad habit of forcing windows to power down rudely.
I’m glad you found this post useful and it gives me a warm fuzzy glow to know it’s helped at least one person.
So have you successfully got QTParted to squeeze down your partitions now?
Regards,
Simon
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Bye
Wilco Breek