Having trouble shrinking your NTFS partition on Windows 7 so that you can dual boot into Ubuntu 10.10? Windows7 Disk Manager sucked for me, suggesting that I could reclaim just 50% of my practically empty NTFS partition. What worked for me (and worked in literally 3 minutes) was Partition Wizard Home Edition. What's more, it's free to use!
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Ah the dirty days of partition management! There's a little dark secret black art to re-partitioning which I learned years ago. First you should always, ALWAYS defrag before you repartition. After a defrag you can use various tools like PartEd (or is GPartED magic?), PartitionMagic, etc. I always found PartitionMagic to be the best at resizing and shuffling partitions because other tools would render Windows un-bootable. That is, you can go so far with other tools so long as you didn't move or resize partitions. Something with moving/resizing causes a rewrite of the partition table that is unreadable by WinXP. Win7 may have fixed this but I have not yet partitioned a Win7 machine.
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