Free Partition Manager or Resizer

[Garibaldi]

I would like to install Slackware Linux preferably without having to reinstall windows. I have an NTSF partition that i just ran a scandisk on and a defrag. I would like to resize this partition to free up some space for linux. I tried QTParted with the system rescue cd at www.sysresccd.org but it gave me an error that I have bad sectors on my drive. Do you know of any other free partitioning apps that will let me resize this NTSF partition?

[gmatov]

Gari,

Why don't you run Checkdisk or Scandisk, or whichever marks the bad sectors?

Once they're marked as bad, it is in the EIDE, on the drive, that says do not use.. Not a Windows thing, nor Linux, for that matter.

Ranish, again, for free partitioning, for you, ideal, as I think it is Command Line.

Cheers,

George

Just got Redhat Fedora 9.3 with a Linux mag, DVD version. Plan to install as soon as I can get some crap off the 400 some gig on this machine. Or, unretire one of the old machines.

[Garibaldi]

Gari,

Why don't you run Checkdisk or Scandisk, or whichever marks the bad sectors?

Once they're marked as bad, it is in the EIDE, on the drive, that says do not use.. Not a Windows thing, nor Linux, for that matter.

Ranish, again, for free partitioning, for you, ideal, as I think it is Command Line. biggrin.gif biggrin.gif

Cheers,

George

Just got Redhat Fedora 9.3 with a Linux mag, DVD version. Plan to install as soon as I can get some crap off the 400 some gig on this machine. Or, unretire one of the old machines.

Thanks gmatov, that's good to know that the drive itself actually marks the bad sectors! I ran a scandisk at boottime before but it doesn't really show you what it's doing.... so I couldn't even tell if it had found bad sectors. I tried copying ranish onto a win 98 bootfloppy that I had made but when I was in ranish and selected my NTSF drive in the bottom right screen it said "fs not supported" and I wasn't sure if proceeding to resize would mess up my NTSF partition. Is ranish safe on NSTF? Here is a mockup I put together of what that message basically looked like:

[Garibaldi]

I found this on the Ranish site forum about resizing an NTFS partition with Ranish: "I guess yes if you make it bigger, but I am not sure the OS will make any
profit of this...

If you mean to make it smaller, answer is certainly no: RPM knows nothing
about NTFS as it should be clear from the screens, so is unable to operate
on its structure. And a keypoint of NTFS is that the mirror copy of the
inode list (MFT) lies precisely... at the end of the partition. So to be
able to shrink it, you should before move this copy in another place..."
So is it NOT possible to resize an NTFS partition with ranish?