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> > This and Steven's suggestions are mostly fine: you however do *not* want > to perform partition resizing from within windows (it may not even be > possible depending on the type of partition, i.e., dynamic vs simple > volume) especially if you have one single boot volume (200Mb 'loader' > partition + the rest of the disk as your NTFS data partition). > Partitioning secondary or tertiary non-OS disks from within windows is > fine however. > > You will be best served by obtaining the gparted live CD and booting > from that to initially resize your windows partition. This will make > windows panic initially after the resize operation and it will want to > run a chkdisk on your first boot afterwards. I once started trying to use Debian to repartition and to cut a long story short I had to go through the whole process of windows updates and reinstall programs, something I am trying to avoid a second time ;) Anyway will try this evening: getting work done in Windows is too time consuming -- Henry -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq