Topic: gparted on an xp machine
newbie here. i am running gparted from a cd on a windows xp machine. there is a triangle with the ! symbol inside. i am unable to resize the ntfs partition. how do i do this?
Re: gparted on an xp machine
Do you have any error message?
It is usually caused by some errors in the ntfs filesystem.
First, you have to boot and shutdown properly xp 1 or 2 times.
You have to run the command
chkdsk /f
from the command prompt window
or
chkdsk /p
from the "recovery console" (I think) where you enter from the xp installation cd.
It repairs ntfs errors.
After that, you can retry with Gparted. Read the documentation before resizing!
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/documentation.php
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*** It is highly recommended to backup any important files before doing resize/move operations. ***