Tim Alberts wrote: [snip]
I've repartitioned two normal hard drives and two hard drives in a NVRAID 0 array through dmraid, using parted, ntfsresize, and dd for backup. Knoppix comes with ntfsresize enabled for qtparted, which makes it a very easy-to-use GUI for shrinking NTFS drives; fat32 should be no problem to shrink with parted / partition magic / whatever else. I've only lost data on one of the NTFS partitions I resized, fortunately it wasn't my main OS but my 64-bit windows install (ironically the only OS i didn't have backed up); it just went bonkers so i reinstalled that partition. I now have a backup of that partition also. However, it is true that other than a simple shrink of one partition to make unpartitioned space, repartitioning should really be left alone until you know what you're doing AND have somewhere to backup your important stuff.If you have only one hard drive and it has only one partition (which windows always does), get a second hard drive or partition the drive. Partitioning a drive usually results in the data on the drive being lost. I've heard you can repartition without loosing data, but I never tried it.
[snip] -Dan