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Topic: Error 16 when resizing nfts partition -- part of partition missing!

Hello all!

I have one HD that I split into 2 nfts partitions about a year ago. Decided to make it one big partition again, so I did the following:

1) Moved everything in the partition I wanted to get rid of elsewhere.
2) Loaded Gparted 3.4-10 live CD
3) Deleted the parition
4) Tried to grow the remaining partition to take up the whole disk
5) Got an error when doing so: Error 16 opening /dev/hdb1 as NFTS has failed: Device or resource busy. This software has detected that the NFTS volume is already opened by another software thus it refuses to progress to preserved data consistency.

In gparted, when I load it up, the HD is shown as one continuous partition with 55.91 Gb total, 46.02 used, 9.89 unused.

When I look at it in windows 2000, it shows it as a disk with 46.1 GB total, 93.4Mb free.

I ran checkdisk on it to see if that would help, but no luck.

One other thought I had -- does gparted require a certain amount of free drive space to work?  I was wondering if having less than 100 mb free is causing a problem.

Any suggestion welcomed!

Zipr

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Re: Error 16 when resizing nfts partition -- part of partition missing!

Gparted Live doesn't use any disk space. It works exclusively in RAM.
Did you close windows properly?

Can you give detailed info on your partitions, what gparted reports about (a screenshot, if possible). In windows, how did you get the info? by explorer or by the disk management?

*** It is highly recommended to backup any important files before doing resize/move operations. ***

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Re: Error 16 when resizing nfts partition -- part of partition missing!

class413 wrote:

Gparted Live doesn't use any disk space. It works exclusively in RAM.
Did you close windows properly?

Can you give detailed info on your partitions, what gparted reports about (a screenshot, if possible). In windows, how did you get the info? by explorer or by the disk management?

I'll try to get this info up soon -- it'll probably take some work to get a screenshot.

The windows info came from explorer.

4 Reply by zipR (edited by zipR 2007-12-11 19:21:42)

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Re: Error 16 when resizing nfts partition -- part of partition missing!

I wasn't able to figure out how to get a screenshot in gparted -- I tried a few different ways without luck.

This is what it says, though:
/dev/hdb1

Graphic:
55.91 GiB
(2/3 yellow, 1/3 white), all bordered by a green line.

Partition:     Filesystem:   Label:       Size:             Used:         Unused:   Flags:
/dev/hdb1   NFTS             1-music    55.91GiB       46.02GiB    9.89GiB



When I look at the disk in Windows 2000's computer management tool, it says that it's 55.91 GB NFTS, healthy.  And it shows up as one big (nearly full) partition.

So my question is: how do I reclaim the 9.89 GiB that gparted sees as free but Windows does not?

Will defragmenting help?

If I went ahead and reformatted the drive would I get all of the space back?

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Re: Error 16 when resizing nfts partition -- part of partition missing!

The info you give seems confused to me.
How big is your disk?
How many partitions were on the disk? how big were they before? what exactly did you do?
Is there any *unallocated* space on the disk? It is not the same "unallocated disk space" and "free partition space".

Please note that the windows explorer shows "disk size" and "free", but it is *partition* size, not hard disk size.

Sometimes, when resizing a partition, the partition size is modified but the filesystem size doesn't change. You could try to run "chkdsk" from the windows command prompt, to fix any eventual error.

Reformat the drive, is just the easy way to loose your data!

*** It is highly recommended to backup any important files before doing resize/move operations. ***

6 Reply by zipR (edited by zipR 2007-12-14 16:29:54)

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Re: Error 16 when resizing nfts partition -- part of partition missing!

I checked the partition from gparted last night and when I did so, gparted said it was trying to grow the filesystem to fill the partition and gave me the same error (16), when it was doing the actual run.

I already have the data backed up elsewhere, so I'm not really worried about losing anything.  Would formatting restore the drive to its proper size? It's 60GiB and I no longer need it to be partitioned...

Thanks for your help!  I wish that I had more success taking screen shots -- that would probably make it much easier.