I'm looking for any free app that can help Windows users resize their ntfs partitions. So the app must work from bootable floppy/CD, i.e., NOT within Linux. Is there any free one?
I'm still wondering: can Windows users resize ntfs with help of any free app?
Thanks.

When I first got my computer, I had a Windows NTFS partition taking up all of my 20 gig hard drive. I used a program called qparted to change the size to about 10 gigs.

Qparted comes on the Knoppix live CD. It has a nifty GUI and everything. You will have to dig around in the menus a bit to find it.

thats qtparted that comes with knoppix, qparted is another one which is still in the development stage. ive used qtparted and it works well - ive used it to resize ntfs, ext3, and reiserfs, and to create fat16, fat32 and ext3 partitions. apparently you're supposed to defragment your ntfs partition before using qtparted on it. i didnt defrag mine, but the install was only a couple days old, so it wasnt very fragmented.

Thanks, ShaneK, Ynot Irucrem.
I use Slackware10.0 and unfortunatly it doesn't contain smth like QtParted to resize ntfs. But I found a very good manual on how to resize ntfs without data loss. It contains the list of distros which contain such tools, and, if yours doesn't, how to do it with the help of 1 floppy.
Here: http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/info/ntfsresize.html

Btw, my QtParted doesn't work with ntfs and ext3, neither does "parted" itself. But GParted (I think the best parted for now) works with ext3 and doesn't with ntfs.

QTParted and Gparted are not only GUI's for Parted. They are much more. Both can resize and even create NTFS if the ntfsprogs package is installed or included on the Linux LiveCD, LiveDVD, LiveUSBKey, LiveFloppy. The ntfsprogs package includes ntfsresize, mkntfs, ntfsclone, ntfsundelete and other NTFS utilities.

Details:
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/features.php
http://qtparted.sourceforge.net/features.en.html

The requirement for a "Resizer for Windows" is a widespread misconception. Actually nobody resizes NTFS that way including all the open source and commercial companies. Instead they boot their own OS and do the resizing before Windows would start. The OS is often Linux but this is not told to the public instead the product is advertised as "X. Y. Partition Manager for Windows". This sells better because sounds familiar for people.

Additionally the Linux NTFS resizer doesn't need defragmentation anymore because it can move around any data safely for over a year. Details at http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/in...tml#fragmented

igu, can you provide a link to ntfsprogs.archive? I didn't find it on their "unmaintained now" site (i.e. I don't need site's address, I need full path to it).
Thanks.

On the download page search for the ntfsprogs package: http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...group_id=13956

But the site is indeed quite a big mess. I noticed that even if there is that "unmaintained now" message, it's still continuously updated :-o

Thanks, igu.