Extremely Long NTFS Resize (60+ hours)

Hi there,

I've used the  GParted livecd to resize a few partitions, and it's worked great for me when resizing ext* partitions. However, while resizing a 500 GB NTFS partition, of which probably only 40GBs were used, the resize has been taking an incredibly long time. It's been 2 days so far (probably a good 36-ish hours), and it still says it need roughly 24 hours to go. In fact, it is so slow, that the computer's making almost no noise at all. It certainly isn't copying or resizing at full speed.

It is too late to actually go back and restart, otherwise I would probably severly damage the file system. However, for the sake of those of us with less patience (or without laptops/spare computers), what could make for such a long resize time?

For the record, this is not my own computer, it is my dad's. However, I do know the following about his hardware:

ASUS P5 motherboard
Core 2 Duo clocked at 3.0Ghz
nVidia 7900 GS
4 GB RAM

I do not, unfortunately, know the make or model of his harddrive. I do, however, know it is an SATA drive. It is 500 GBs, but that is as far as my knowledge of his hardware extends.

I do know that whenever GParted first booted up, it did not instantly recognize his graphics card. I had to set it to force VESA, if I remember correctly. Could the VESA driver be the culprit? I doubt it, but hopefully someone more knowledgeable can answer.

Thanks in advance,

Zach