Topic: Unable to shrink NTFS partition
Hi ya'll!
I have a wimpy school laptop here and wanted to install Linux on it. However, there are a ton of windows programs that I need for school yada yada yada and the Ubuntu install CD seems to be unable to repartition a NTFS partition so I came to GParted.
Here's my set-up:
* 37.2 GB harddrive (40GB by the manufacturer's standard... ;-) ) in NTFS
* ~34 GB used and ~3.5 GB free
Here's my problem:
* When I tried freeing up the 3 GB by shrinking the NTFS partition I got this infamous error message...
ERROR: Extended record needed (xxxx > 1024), not yet supported!
Please try to free less space.
* However, when i tried in smaller chunks, i was able to shrink it by about 1.5 GB but now i keep getting the error message over and over again
* I tried saving the error report by mounting my hard drive and saving the file, but when I rebooted into windows it wasn't there.
Any help would be MUCH appreciated!
-RussellChamp