Resizing help

[finsta]

Hello people,
I'm trying to resize my Windows XP partition on a T42 to make room for Ubuntu. Now, my issue lies in the resizing, it always errors out yet the HD is fine, no errors on the disk and it works fine. Just when resizing, it errors out then corrupts the partition and I have to load up a Ghost image. My R&R partition is set to secure so no worries there.
I'm wondering if anybody else is having this issue...

Thanks

[lord jim]

just what do you trying to accomplish?. I understand shrink XP primary parition, perhaps move away, to make room for second primary partition?. with what software?