For what it's worth I had a similar problem on a Dell Inspiron a few months ago. I can't remember the exact sequence but it was something like: * Tried to install SuSE (8.2 I think) as dual boot but it couldn't re-partition the hard disk (unmoveable files or something like that). * Didn't really wan XP at that time so I just wiped it an d installed SuSE - no problem at all. * Then work meant that I needed XP for remote access. Re-installed XP from the 'rescue' disks and then quite happily installed SuSE dual- boot. Everything's been fine since then. I didn't investigate much but the impression I got was that the default XP installation put something at the top-end of the disk, maybe associated with the suspend/recover functions, and normal partition re-sizing couldn't handle it, but the re-installed XP put this somewhere else and everything was OK then. Hope this helps, Colin Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
I just attempted to install SuSE 9.1 on my new Dell Inspiron 1000 laptop. When I got to the point of trying to resize the Windows partition (NTFS), I was prevented from doing so because it was mounted. So I removed the mount point and tried again.
Did you umount it first?
This time the resize operation did nothing -- no response when I pressed Alt-S. So I tried using a custom partition, and I got a message to the effect that this type of Windows partition could not be resized.
I resized 2 NTFS Windows XP home partitions on 2 e-Machines notebooks with 9.1, after defragging them in Windows.
The odd thing here is that several people reported in an earlier thread on this subject that they succeeded in resizing the NTFS partition. So I'm wondering why I got a different result than they did.
Why would the Windows partitions be mounted on an install? How did you install? Did you boot from the DVD?