I have a Windows 7 Pro computer with 1tb hard drive and i'm trying to install Fedora-KDE 23.
But I need to resize hard drive sda2 NTFS from 900gb down to 300gb, I'm using Gparted to resize the partition , but Gparted won't resize, I changed the 900gb to 300gb but it won't high light the resize button

I can run the Fedora-Live DVD with no problems, but just can't resize partition.
I have installed fedora on Windows 7 computers a number of time with no problems,

Hi...

You can do this using Windows 7, as well. Please see here.

Regards...

The most likely explanation for that is that your windows partition is mounted. If you unmount it first it might work. I wouldn't use anything but windows Disk Management to do this due to past personal experience but it's your computer.

I tried the Windows Method and it worked fine, even while Windows 7 is mounted.

I have the unallocated space i need now, but I'm having a Partitioning problem with creating the Linux ext4 partitions.

Here is my partition table in Gparted;

/dev/sda1 NTFS Reserved
/dev/sda2 NTFS
Unallocated 432.32GB
/dev/sda3 Extended
/dev/sda5 NTFS Recovery
Unallocated 2.49mib

My problem is I can make a /dev/sda4 as / but when I try to make a swap or /home directory I need to make a Extended Partition.

I already have a Extended Partition .

How can I move that 432.32GB unallocated partition to the bottom with the 2.49mib ?

Within windows can you expand the extended partition? I can't remember if this can be done or not.

Using Gparted, and partition table below, couldn't you delete the Extended Partition and sda5 would move up as sda3 ?

/dev/sda1 NTFS Reserved
/dev/sda2 NTFS
Unallocated 432.32GB
/dev/sda3 Extended
/dev/sda5 NTFS Recovery
Unallocated 2.49mib

I don't think you can delete an Extended partition while you have a logical partition existing within it. I expect you would have to first delete sda5, the Recovery partition which you probably should not do. Run GParted again and unmount sda5 and then resize sda3 to the left to include all the unallocated space after sda2.

I'd recommend leaving the extra space unallocated, and have fedora install to the unpartitioned space. The fedora installer will then create it's partitions, which by default will use lvm with the root and swap partitions being logical volumes in lvm.

yancek, How do you move a partitions left and right using Gparted.

Doug G , I don't want to setup LVM partitions, I want to setup my on standard partitions;

/
/home
swap

I tried to setup partitions in Fedora, it would let me setup / partition but not /home or Swap.

In the GParted window, click on the Extended partition (/dev/sda3) to highlight it. Right-click and select the umount option. Click the Partition tab at the top and select Resize/Move. You will then get a new window with several options. You can either enter the sizes you want in the boxes or move your mouse up to the horizontal box at the top which has two small black arrows. Move the mouse to the left arrow and you should then see a small white arrow. Put the mouse arrow on it and slide to the left and watch the size in New Size box change.

The GParted Manual is at the link below. Scroll down to the Resziing a Partition option.

http://gparted.org/display-doc.php%3Fname%3Dhelp-manual

If seeing images is easier for you, look at the tutorial below, Section 6.B Resize partition. It shows images of the screen and explains in detail.

http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/gparted.html