BandiPat wrote:
Take a look at the programs included with SuSE 8.2 discs. I don't know how reliable these are nor how well they work, but I do believe they work. Also, it seems there were some NTFS programs included with Mandrake. The SuSE programs are "ntfsprogs", if you do a search in YaST2. There are 4 programs included, mkntfs, ntfsundelete, ntfsresize & ntfslabel.
I've previously used ntfsresize to resize w2000 partitions successfully so I'm reasonably happy that it works. But last time I tried to use it, it said it couldn't do anything. Looking at the disk with w2000, it had placed some system files in the middle of the disk. ntfsresize is apparently unable to move these before resizing. Luckily, I was able to borrow PartitionMagic to do the job. Still, I'd recommend partitioning the disk first if poss and then install windoze if you must. Cheers, Dave