I am planning to replace vista with xp soon. Can't afford an external drive :P so i planned to shrink my vista partition and use that freed space as a backup partition. V!sta's native partition manager wont let me shrink further so i turned to trusty ntfsresize on my kubuntu. so i first did a dry run:
sudo ntfsresize -n -s 160G /dev/sda1
The test proved successful so i did the real thing:
sudo ntfsresize -s 160G /dev/sda1
and eventually it was also successful. So i booted back into windows (after a chkdsk run) and it shows that the C: partition IS 140 gigs smaller but i go to the vista partition manager and it shows that the partition is still 280 gigs big. And the same is for gparted.
So the questions I ask are:
Where's my free space?
How can i solve my problem?
Thanks in advance!
sudo ntfsresize -n -s 160G /dev/sda1
The test proved successful so i did the real thing:
sudo ntfsresize -s 160G /dev/sda1
and eventually it was also successful. So i booted back into windows (after a chkdsk run) and it shows that the C: partition IS 140 gigs smaller but i go to the vista partition manager and it shows that the partition is still 280 gigs big. And the same is for gparted.
So the questions I ask are:
Where's my free space?
How can i solve my problem?
Thanks in advance!
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