> I have an HP pavilion and successfully shrunk the partition with Mandrake 9. > I defragged the XP system, then used diskdrake (their partition manager program to > shrink the partition size. It worked pretty good and XP remained intact for me. > Their program is pretty easy to use. > After resizing the hda1 partition, I switched to the FC installation disks and let > the installer do the rest. I split the size between XP as in the linux fdisk output > below. > I haven't had much luck using qtparted on two different computers. I wanted to shrink > my hardly used XP installation even more. I got a similar error as you described above. > Just another alternative. After hunting for a bit, I found in the ntfsresize docs that the error I got was due to fs errors. I went back in to XP and scheduled a chkdsk on restart - which fixed a couple of errors. After that, qtparted ran fine for me. > One note about HP laptops: > I need to pass acpi=on to my laptop to get my system to boot properly. > This opption might help you with the problem booting the rescue CD. > I include this option in all my grub.conf entries. > Sometimes FC turns off acpi and the computer refuses to boot. Thanks - I'll give that a whirl. Is that something I can set up at install time or just pass it on the boot line at start up? > There is an option in HP BIOS that refers to USB legacy. > You might need to disable this option to prevent hanging systems when you do get FC > running on your computer. Thanks - I'll try and switch that off :o) > Jim Dave This e-mail and any attachment is for authorised use by the intended recipient(s) only. It may contain proprietary material, confidential information and/or be subject to legal privilege. It should not be copied, disclosed to, retained or used by, any other party. If you are not an intended recipient then please promptly delete this e-mail and any attachment and all copies and inform the sender. Thank you.
