On 2008-03-28 05:35, ray wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 22:00:34 +0000, heavytull wrote:
>
>> Magic partition failed while redimisioning the winXP partition, now
>> winXP won't boot (actually it boots, but some time after it restarts the
>> pc, even in 'safe mode'), linux won't mount its partition. is there any
>> tool under linux that will help?
>
> Probably not now, but I have indeed used 'gparted' to resize NTFS
> partitions successfully.

I read somewhere that NTFS has something secret in the middle of the filesystem,
in the FAT area, even if they maybe call it something else now.
So redusing the size 30/40% is often no problem, but at 50% or more it can
step on something totally undocumented and proprietary making resize to fail.

But that is what I read somewhere claimed by someone else, all NTFS I ever had
was liberated before they even did a boot for the first time.

/bb