Utility to resize partition on SATA drive

[LawnBoy]

This new Dell I have has a SATA drive and Partition Magic won't resize the NTFS partition. Anybody know of another utility that handles SATA?

Prepping to dual boot with SuSE 9.0.

 

[xmb]

Its not about lacking SATA support, its the partition type that makes problems.
Theres something called 'ntfsresize' tho, take a look at its FAQ

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[LawnBoy]

I have resized XP NTFS partitions with this same version of Partition Magic before, it's complaining about the drive being SATA.

Thanks for the link, I'll check it out.

 

[LawnBoy]

I burnt the iso for SystemRescueCD (which looks to be really valuable) but qtparted reports that there's no hard drive installed.

I've not messed with SATA before, any help would be most appreciated.

 

[xmb]

Try modprobe sata_* and check again.
If that fails, chances are that the SysResc-CD contains a too old kernel without the sata drivers you need.

You can probably make a new boot CD based on this one, after adding the newest 2.6er to it.

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[LawnBoy]

Hmmm. The guys who wrote ntfsresize warn against using the 2.6 kernel, they claim it can trash a drive.

However most often a Windows boot problem occurs if one edited the partition table by Parted/libparted version less than 1.6.12 based partitioning tool. This is especially true if a Linux 2.6 kernel was used. The Linux 2.6 kernels report different disk geometries as previously for the same disk an incompatible way therefore fooling softwares like Parted.

Supposedly ntfsresize is included with SuSE 9.0, but I can't seem to find it.

Are there any other tools that might do the job?

 

[xmb]

parted 1.6.12 seems quite old, i got 1.6.20... 2.6 contains new, better ntfs code, also the ability to write (finally, officially).

Yast search for it, if it isnt there, get and compile it from its major SF page

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[onoski]

It has been said above and I'd say back it up too as you cannot go wrong with Partition Magic.

 

[LawnBoy]

I went into the BIOS and set the SATA characteristics to "compatible" mode (i.e. emulate PATA) and Partition Magic works fine now. Thanks for the help.