Resize Your NTFS Partition Using GParted LiveCD

November 3, 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.

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3 Comments about "Resize Your NTFS Partition Using GParted LiveCD"

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luca
September 2, 2009 at 01:43 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
yeferson
August 6, 2009 at 04:53 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??
ian
May 9, 2009 at 08:02 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

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