How old is your partition magic? I constantly use PM 8 and resize NTFS based partitions all the time, and it works like a charm for me. The reason I ask is because a few earlier versions had problems with resizing.

You see, resizing a partition doesn't just entail resizing it. It means that you have to move the files around as nessessary to fit into the appropriate partition (you can't do this manually, but PM can) and -then- resize your partition. Otherwise when you resize your partitions without moving the files first they are scattered across two different partitions and thus both remain unreable.

The reason I say this is because some PM older versions did not properly move all of the files. When it rebooted and preformed the operations while still in DOS like mode, did you notice it say anything about the filesystem and/or moving around the files?