Repartitioning after Boot Camp issue and questions

Hi,
I recently installed windows XP via Boot Camp, and wanted to chop up my "Macintosh HD" partition into two so that I have a data partition for personal storage. I'm using Disk Utility to do this, it has been running for 8 hours. I checked the number of system calls that Disk Utility is making and it seems that it is making a couple of hundred per second. I was hoping people would help me answer the following:
1. is it normal to take this long? even windows defragmenter works faster
2. if it completes, would mac os x still recognize the XP partition and boot from there?
Some people out there must have done this, is there light at the end of the tunnel?
Thanks a bunch in advance!
Tom

You can't get the result you want following the steps you told me you followed.
Once you have created the mac partition and installed you can only create the windows partition using boot camp. You cannot do a live partition of the original leopard boot volume to create another mac partition on the same drive.
You also cannot partition a partition using Disk Utility, the only software available on the mac to partition a partition is Boot Camp Assistant and it can only do the partition when booted to the Leopard startup volume on which it is to be created.
If you want to have a further data partition on the same drive you need to create it at the beginning using Disk Utility to create that partition.
In your case that would be the data partition you wanted to create.
The drive must use the GUID partition scheme.
The Leopard individual partition (which will eventually be live partitioned to accommodate Windows) must be formatted for mac os x extended journalled.
The data partition can be formatted with any allowed format and can be changed when you decide what format you want.
Once these 2 partitions have been set up you can only use boot camp assistant to modify the partitioning and then only to create a boot camp partition on the volume that has leopard installed.
The Leopard partition, once partitioned with Boot Camp Assistant, can now only have its partition modified by destroying the original boot camp partition and then setting it up again.
You normally cannot partition a partition without destroying all data on the volume that the partitions are created on.
This live partition is an innovation that was included so that those who wanted to either remove the boot camp partition or wanted to change the size of the partition would be able to do so, without also destroying their Leopard startup volume.
Read my instructions again, the process you describe does not match what I have posted.

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