Re: [gentoo-user] NTFS resizing

[Dan <drose@dtlm.homelinux.net>]

Pingveno wrote:

> I'm trying to resize an NTFS partition to fit Gentoo on a new laptop. 
> As recommended by countless sources all over the Internet, I am using 
> Knoppix & Qtparted for resizing. However, QTParted complains about 
> accounting errors in the NTFS filesystem (yes, I know that's 
> redundant). After a little bit of Google searching, I discovered I 
> needed to use chkdsk on Windows with the /f switch to fix the errors. 
> Easy. Of course, chkdsk alerted me that it can't modify a running NTFS 
> system. Okay, so I do what it recommends to me: let the checking be 
> run after a reboot.
>
> None of this is exactly extraordinary. However, there is the slight 
> problem that chkdsk never actually runs at start up. No bueno. Any 
> tricks to con it into working?
>
> -Pingveno
>
> P.S. This is a Thinkpad T43
>
You can try booting with "bartPE", or a disk you can make with "nlite".

These tools both allow you to create a bootable windows CD in the 
Knoppix style.

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