I'm basically a Newbie.
I have a 60G hard drive with Windows XP Home.
Downloaded Fedora Project CDROMs - 4 of them.
Downloaded Trinity Rescue Disk so I could ntfsresize the C: partition to get
room for installing Linux
ntfsresize resized teh partition from 60GB to 52GB but I don't see the partition
with any tools I've used.
Tried to install Fedora Linux but it does not see the freeed up 8GB space
If I run fdisk /dev/hda the free space does not show up either.

The command I used was ntfsresize -s 52126085120 /dev/hda1

I can't get fdisk /dev/hda to create a partition either

Fedora spits out:
Could not allocate requested partitions.
Partitioning failed: Could not allocate partitions as primary partitions.

Help please.

Carl
cwmoser@yadtel.net

> I'm basically a Newbie.
> I have a 60G hard drive with Windows XP Home.
> Downloaded Fedora Project CDROMs - 4 of them.
> Downloaded Trinity Rescue Disk so I could ntfsresize the C: partition to
> get room for installing Linux
> ntfsresize resized teh partition from 60GB to 52GB but I don't see the
> partition with any tools I've used.

I have never used ntfsresize, but I suspect it only resizes the
filesystem. You will need to shrink the partition as well.

> Tried to install Fedora Linux but it does not see the freeed up 8GB space
> If I run fdisk /dev/hda the free space does not show up either.
>
> The command I used was ntfsresize -s 52126085120 /dev/hda1
>
> I can't get fdisk /dev/hda to create a partition either

why not? Is the partition still the old size?
If so, shrink it with parted eg. or just fdisk (for experts only)

***Make a backup first though.***

Eric