That's true - DiskDrake cannot shrink a NTFS partition.  Someone on this
list or maybe the newbie list mentioned Partition Star as a free
alternative to partition magic.  It may be worth searching for this on
Google - might do the job.  Make backups first though!!!

HTH
Brian

On Sun, 2002-02-17 at 11:37, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Dear Crashtesters,
> I friend of my daughter is interested about linux. Hi has a computer
> runing windows XP and I have heard that to open space in  the partition
> of the harddisk Disdrake is not enought due to the use of the NTFS
> system; is that true?
> In this case should be neccesary partition magic or there exists any
> opensource package to do that?
> 
> Thanks so much for your help in advance
> 
> Francisco Alcaraz
> Murcia (Spain)
> 
> 
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