Re: Resize partition solution -and- problem.

2012-07-10 Thread joe
Joe, I do not know that partitioning tool so I do not know for sure it can be trusted to safely shrink the ntfs partition on which your XP was running. What should have happened if it did the right things is that when you next booted XP, the XP bootloader would note the change in the

Re: Resize partition solution -and- problem.

2012-07-10 Thread Lisa Kachold
I would try the things in red in my post first. You don't really want a dual boot box anyway. Run XP in a Virtualbox? On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 11:40 PM, j...@actionline.com wrote: Joe, I do not know that partitioning tool so I do not know for sure it can be trusted to safely shrink the ntfs

Resize partition solution -and- problem.

2012-07-09 Thread joe
First ... I'd like to say kudos to Larry (Dazed) and all the great guys that give their time so generously at the monthly Installfests, providing such excellent help. Last Saturday, while trying to shrink a 40-gig partition on my xp laptop so I could add Linux, we ran into a stumbling block with

Re: Resize partition solution -and- problem.

2012-07-09 Thread Lisa Kachold
Hi Joe, On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 3:47 PM, j...@actionline.com wrote: First ... I'd like to say kudos to Larry (Dazed) and all the great guys that give their time so generously at the monthly Installfests, providing such excellent help. Last Saturday, while trying to shrink a 40-gig partition

Re: Resize partition solution -and- problem.

2012-07-09 Thread Dazed_75
Joe, I do not know that partitioning tool so I do not know for sure it can be trusted to safely shrink the ntfs partition on which your XP was running. What should have happened if it did the right things is that when you next booted XP, the XP bootloader would note the change in the partition