Is NTFS resizing safe nowadays?

[Bart Silverstrim]

Phill MV wrote:
>> Define Safe?  I would never manipulate partitions unless I was ready to
>> do a full recovery... The process isn't bugged or error prone, but an
>> inconveniently timed power outage or hardware failure can do much more
>> damage than usual.
> 
> 
> Well, let's define safe to be, "barring freak accidents external to the
> software, if you follow the steps in the vast majority of cases it will work
> perfectly" :P. I just have no means to perform recovery, because getting it
> reimaged is a large hurdle.

Another option I didn't mention was to use the vmware converter tool to 
convert your existing computer into a VMWare image. Then you can install 
Ubuntu, install VMWare, and run your old computer as the vmware image 
rather than Ubuntu.

If you do that, though, you should rename your Windows computer image so 
it doesn't cause network issues...you would need to rename it and, if 
you have a static IP set, change that when you test it. XP running an 
image of itself in VMWare will probably cause hiccups in your network 
connectivity when it goes schizophrenic and for once it isn't Windows' 
fault.