Problem resizing partition

[gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org (Jerry Feldman)]

What Windows version. If you have Vista, did you try the built-in
resizing software.
<http://www.vistarewired.com/2007/02/16/how-to-resize-a-partition-in-wind=
ows-vista>

Also, make sure you defrag the Windows partition before resizing. Unlike
the Linux file systems, Windows does not try to maintain a frag-free
file system.

On 06/22/2009 05:52 PM, Laura Conrad wrote:
> I'm having an unexpected problem putting Linux on the new machine.  I
> need to resize the windows partition, and gparted (and whatever the
> partitioner on the xubuntu 9.04 install disk is) won't do it.
>
> Whenever I run, it says, "The enclosing drive for the volume is
> locked". =20
>
> Without resizing, I can actually install xubuntu, but not much else.
>
> I've googled, and found lots of references to this problem, but so far
> no solutions that work for me.
>
> The problem is possibly related to a problem I was having with
> Windows -- when I tried to play a DVD, it would play for a couple of
> minutes and then turn the computer off.  I did this several times befor=
e
> I found the BIOS upgrade that fixed the problem.  Whenever it happened,=

> the next time I would boot windows it would tell me it hadn't shut down=

> properly and did I want to go into safe mode.  But it always worked fin=
e
> (as fine as windows ever does) when I just booted normally. =20
>
> So does anyone have any idea how I can unlock the enclosing drive?  Or
> get some software to ignore the lock and let me resize the partition?
>
>  =20


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