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blazemore
January 17th, 2010, 02:50 PM
Is there a utility (preferably free) that can resize an NTFS partition on-the-fly in Windows XP?
Vista and Seven can do this via the Disk Management utility, but XP cannot.

juancarlospaco
January 17th, 2010, 03:01 PM
Gparted Live

blazemore
January 17th, 2010, 05:27 PM
Did you read my post?
I need to resize a partition ON THE FLY from within Windows.

Hwæt
January 17th, 2010, 05:37 PM
Gparted Live

This


Did you read my post?
I need to resize a partition ON THE FLY from within Windows.

Why? If it's a server, and you really need to do it, then I think your users would understand a reasonable ten minute downtime.

Dark Aspect
January 17th, 2010, 05:54 PM
Gparted Live

It seems that the latest version of gparted does not work with NTFS.


In the case of the NTFS file system, The error message seen after the partition is resized is:

ERROR: Current NTFS volume size is bigger than the device size!

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/news.php

CharlesA
January 17th, 2010, 06:02 PM
That's not the latest stable version.

Why would you need to resize an XP partition on the fly anyhow?