VMWare NTFS Resize, and Gparted-Clonezilla LiveCD

I've been messing around a lot with virtual technologies recently. Partly due to the virtualization technology that we have been using at work, but mostly because its cool and every once in a while I need to run something in Windows and I don't want to reboot on my dual boot laptop.I ran out of room on my 8gb windows vmware partition. I decided to double the capacity. Easy enough. I've done this before. I'll just run the vmware command:vmware-vdiskmanager Windows\ XP\ Professional.vmdk -x 16Gb Then I will just boot up from the gparted-clonezilla livecd and expand the NTFS partition. Easier said than done! It turns out that I could not boot from gparted-clonezilla. It kept on trying to load a buslogic scsi device (even though I'm not using any scsi devices in my vmware image). It would try and fail over and over again and then eventually just stop and sit there.I happened upon a single post on the gparted forums that mentioned changing the scsi settings in the vmx file. I added the following line to my vmx file:  scsi0.virtualDev = "lsilogic" So I figured what the heck! Well it all of a sudden worked just fine. My NTFS partition is being resized as I write this.