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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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