[ltp] resizing hard disk on ThinkPad T40?

[Richard Griffith]

Heiko Rosemann wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Feb 2004, Sean wrote:
> 
>>Richard Griffith wrote:
>>
>> > Mandrake's ntfsresize works well on a clean/new system, but a well used
>>
>>>NTFS needs a proper defrag before it stands a chance. The doing the
>>>defrag/resize twice was the key to the last dual boot I set up, though.
>>
>>Interesting, I never tried that approach. I'll have to remember that.
> 
> 
> Well, on my X30 the second try didn't reveal any more free space than the
> first - but I tried using the XP defrag, no Diskeeper. Thanks for that hint.

I had one that showed about 2 Gig available for resizing. I tried XP's 
defrag, and ended up with 0 available. That's when I went through the 
diskeeper gyrations. Got about 8G IIRC on the first pass, and 15G, a 
full 50% of the drive, after the second pass. I do realize reading the 
rest of this thread that I forgot to include turning off virtual memory 
in XP in my message. That was an important step, (For my own box, I just 
picked the 'delete windows' option, but family and friends aren't quite 
as brave ;)

I will have to get the latest, though. Until Szaka offered the excellent 
advice I hadn't realized there was a newer and better ntfsresize. Cool!

-Richard