Have you ever needed to resize your NTFS partition? Here are some instructions.

1. Download the SystemRescueCD ISO image (100 MB very useful softwares).
2. Burn the ISO image to a CD.
3. Boot from the CD and hit when you see the message "Boot:".
4. Enter run_qtparted when you get a command prompt.
5. Select your disk on the graphical screen.
6. Select your NTFS partition to be resized.
7. Right click with the mouse and choose Resize.
8. Set the new partition size.
9. Commit your changes in the File -> Commit menu.
10. If your keyboard and mouse stop responding during resizing then please just be patient.

Note: When we first attempted this on a Dell system the qtparted application did not see the drive. The fix was to get into the BIOS, access the Drives/SATA Operation section, and change the setting from Normal to Combination.