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Resize Your NTFS Partition Using GParted LiveCD

November 3rd, 2007

I got a new laptop, a Dell Lattitude D830, which came with Windows XP installed on the entire drive. I needed to resize the partition containing Windows to make space for my Ubuntu install. Along comes GParted LiveCD to make resizing my NTFS partition a piece of cake.

GParted is a GTK+ GUI for parted, and open source partition editing tool. I have used GParted in the past from within my GNOME environment of a Ubuntu or Fedora install, however, GParted now has a Live CD which can be used to boot to a light-weight GUI and run GParted. No need to have Linux installed anywhere already. You can download GParted LiveCD and burn the CD image. Using this tool, I was able to easily resize my 80GB NTFS partition to 20GB allowing 60GB for Linux.

Note: When booting off the CD, I had to use the VESA driver option to get X to start.


Posted on Saturday, November 3rd, 2007 at 11:42 am

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  1. ian Says:
    May 9th, 2009 at 8:02 am

    Thanks Micah. This is good to know. I'm about to go resize a friends partition that has the same problem (Windows installed on the entire drive).

    The links you posted must have changed since you posted this. I don't know if this is a different distribution but assuming it is since Nov 2007.

    The file is here. http://sourceforge.net/projects/partedmagic/ and it's called pmagic or parted magic.

    I chose the alternate video option which used xvesa from the menu at start up and it works great.

    It's actually a small OS because it has networking and there are many other tools available in the start menu and on the desktop.

    I would suggest anyone who uses windows or linux get a copy and try it out for partitioning and other tasks.

    Thanks for the info

  2. yeferson Says:
    August 6th, 2009 at 4:53 pm

    Escuseme, I have a very bad English.

    My Laptop is a acer with NTFS partitions and i need crate space for UBUNTU but without lose window, how i can do that??

  3. luca Says:
    September 2nd, 2009 at 1:43 pm

    thanks for sharing this info! (good news for someone with very little tech knowledge trying to resize an existing NTFS to have room for ubuntu...) cheers

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