[wplug] Drive Partitions

Rafael E. Herrera raffo at neuronet.pitt.edu
Tue Oct 15 23:41:17 EDT 2002


>
> Erm, I'd say that
>
> [0] There is no built-in utility for doing that in XP and
> [1] There aren't that many tools for NTFSv5 partition resizing.
>
> The only one I'm personally aware of is Partition Magic (version 8 or 
> newer?),
> which by the way screwed up my partition when I tried to do exactly that
> (resize an XP partition). So, yeah, things *can* go very wrong. Complete
> backups are in order.

I can offer a second account; someone at the office tried to resize a 
NTFS win xp partition and it didn't work. Booting with the xp cdrom and 
a chkdsk appear to have fixed the problem. Windows is crap.
-- 
      Rafael




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