[ltp] gain exclusive access to disk?

Paul Sladen linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Wed, 17 Aug 2005 14:25:15 +0100 (BST)


On Mon, 15 Aug 2005, Josh Battles wrote:

Hello Josh,

> I then disabled the security chip as well as Norton AV, but am still
> unable to gain exclusive access to the drive so that PM8 can resize the
> NTFS partition.  What am I missing here?

Ubuntu has NTFS-resize support in the installer;  you should just need to
set the HPA (Host Protected Area) to 'Disabled' in the BIOS.

	-Paul
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