Thanks, guys, That's very interesting, Steve, I may be able to get a windows user to do that for me from within Windows 7. I was fully prepared to handle the case of resizing a single partition using only Linux command line tools, but if Windows 7 can do the entire job, all the better. The idea of virtualizing the two OS's is more of a chanllenge for me than I need at the moment, although it makes a lot of sense. Once upon a time I'd have tackled it eagerly, but ... Chuck -- Chuck in Hudson. Web address: www.hallenbeck.ftml.net, Messenger JID: chuckh1 at jabber.org
