your trick was not practical.it didnt work.

so how can i resize that partition in windows?

this is the output of print command in parted (from a live cd):
cant have overlapping partitions

Several people have noted that "fixmbr" is not relevant if you are able to boot into Windows. Why then are you reporting that "it didn't work"?

Please summarize the current situation:

• What is working?
• What is not working?
• What fixes have you tried?

Also, how is this relevant?:

the best thing is check with the new version of FC i.e. 5 or 6 and then tell us whether u r getting the same problems.

[QUOTE=poweredbydodge]I didn't think that you could resize a Windows partition that had the operating system (Windows) installed on it? I've seen Fat 32 partitions of just data resized, same for NTFS, but I didn't know you could do it with the OS partition. (I mean, sure, you could physically do it, but I thought it killed the operating system.)

I've done it many times without problems, much to my surprise!

The key thing is to scandisk and defrag, and cross your fingers.

The only problems I've had tend to be Partition Magic related. I have found using it to format to ext3 often causes the linux installer not to recognise the partition. So I only use it to re-size the windows partitions and create empty space for Linux. When i last installed Ubuntu 6.06 i tried Gparted off the live CD and that worked ok.

... well i learn somethin new every day

ps - fdisk will not play friendly with anything but fat32 partitions. older fdisk will only mesh with fat16 (ie. fdisk on a win95 boot 3 1/2 floppy).

pps - referring to windows fdisk, not linux fdisk

Yeah, if you have a fragmented disk, then it will fail, but other than that you should be ok.